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a cylinder head from the B-17G 42- 97329. of the Michaelis crew. The engine was a Curtiss-Wright R-1820 Cyclone, 9 cylinder radial engine, the plane crashed in Bad Grund during the war, I found this cylinder head while picking mushrooms. After my research at the Federal Aviation Office, I was sent pictures of the crew and the plane. One man survived the crash and later the war.
Material:
Aluminum
Condition:
Burned
Detector find:
No
Country:
Germany
County:
Göttingen
Front / In ground
Reference image: © Internet Heimatforschung
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Jan 3.3.2024
Top research, very interesting! 👍
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Sondelreise 4.3.2024
Has nothing to do with metal detecting, hope that's ok, unfortunately I couldn't hide the location for it,
Frankytown 6.3.2025
Why not? Well, the piece is not as old as some of the other pieces here, but (correction requested) it possibly begins to tell a story of missing soldiers. Especially in aviation, there are many unresolved fates and questions about descendants.
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Sondelreise 6.3.2025
This crash has already been documented and all fates recorded, I wrote that a member of the crew survived the crash and then also survived the war unscathed
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