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Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport
Drudge via The Scotsman ^
| 7/23/03
| Allan Hall
Posted on 07/23/2003 10:10:21 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
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To: SquirrelKing
Schoenefeld was the Berlin airport of East Germany, but it is not/was not in East Berlin. It is south of Mariendorf/Marienfelde in West Berlin, and is in the Mark Brandenburg, just outside the city limits of Berlin.
I was not aware that Schoenefeld was already in use in the Nazi period. Anybody know anything about that?
I was stationed at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin from 1970 to 1972. There were rumors while I was there about what was in the subterranean floors of the barracks there, which the Russians had flooded during the Battle of Berlin. Those floors were sealed off, so we could not see what was there.
To: Johnny Gage
Thanks Johnny. It would be great if they really find planes. Thanks for the ping.
To: SAMWolf; aristeides
Anything jet or technically advanced ( like the incomplete Hs 132) would have been carted off by the Soviets.
Henschel Aircraft had a huge complex there; above and below ground. Ju-88s
and Ju-388s were built there up until Feb '45 when all production switched to single
engine fighters. Plus all the Henschel guided missile projects were built there, which
could account for large quantities of SC500 and other type bombs.
Anything from He-111s, Do217s, Ju88/388s. Fw190A/D/F/G's
Me109G/K's, Hs129s, or Ju87Gs. Who knows.
I ran across a site earlier where a Soviet pilot shot down
a Me-109 over Schoenefeld in April '45 so they were probably based
there during the last days of the war.
To: wolficatZ
You're probably right about any jet/rocket aircraft being carted off. Sure would be nice to find some Fw-190s there though.
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posted on
07/23/2003 3:53:39 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Everytime I lose weight, it finds me again.)
To: SAMWolf
You guy have no imagination
I want a Ta152
I would prefer a C model but an H model will do
Check out http://www.luft46.com/
To: SquirrelKing
Given that corroded lumps of 60-year old scrap aluminum are nowadays "restorable" aircraft worth thousands, expect some serious spelunking to go on here soon (assuming it isn't an uber-urban legend). And while you're at it, I'd like an ME-262, a cool, longnosed TA-152, and one of those Nazi flying saucers that didn't exist (assuming they didn't all end up at the secret base in Anarctica).
To: SAMWolf
Nice pic of the D. Could be Fw190s there; I had some video footage of Tempelhof after the
Soviet capture and you can see a number of Fw190s in a hangar, so they were
definitely in Berlin at the end of the war. Fuel being so short; would have been
reserved for the few fighter and recon units available;most of the bomber units
were dissolved and the crews and ground crews sent into the Battle for Berlin
on the ground.
A number of Fa-223s were captured at Tempelhof supposedly
To: Frank_Discussion
In 2002 the French were doing some work in a rural area that would have been a couple miles behind the front in W.W.1 when the backhoe they were using uncovered a tunnel complete with narrow gage electric railroad tracks that dated back to W.W.1 ,the tunnel was used for moving men & ammunition up to the front out of sight of the enemy & under protection from airburst artillery.heaven only knows what is still buried under the soil in the various parts of the old East Germany.
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posted on
07/23/2003 4:51:00 PM PDT
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 "reach out and thump someone " & .50 cal Browning "reach out & CRUSH someone")
To: SAMWolf
They just dug up one of these
To: wolficatZ
Aha so that's what all the UFO sightings are!
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:04:53 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Everytime I lose weight, it finds me again.)
To: Nebr FAL owner
When I was stationed in Crailsheim there were rumors of underground planes in one of the partialy buried concrete aircraft revements. Also there were a number of places on base (like the football field and the "back 40")where we couldn't drive vehicles or our M-113s, because of buried munitions left over from the war. Never got to investigate the hangar,it was supposedly flooded and booby-trapped. I'm sure a lot of ex-military has heard a lot of these kind of stories. I did get to explore a big bunker in the woods in Grafenwoehr that had been blown up and stillhave some pictures I took of a tank graveyard somewhere near Hohenfels.
To: SquirrelKing
It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a DAMNED LIE!!
To: Sparta
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:11:30 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Everytime I lose weight, it finds me again.)
To: wolficatZ
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:17:25 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Everytime I lose weight, it finds me again.)
To: SAMWolf
Nutzis are the craziest peoples.
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:23:19 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: SAMWolf
To: wolficatZ
Thanks for the links. When I was stationed in Germany I wuold find what was left of old bunkers in the woods all the time. They were all picked over since they were all on the beaten path.
The massive Air Raid shelter my mom used in Koln is still standing.
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:35:16 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Everytime I lose weight, it finds me again.)
To: rockfish59
Look like
Sing along with Mitch
To: SquirrelKing
ROFL !"France surrendered two hours ago."
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:44:27 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Kakkate Koi!)
To: ThomasMore
And I have just the guy to pilot the plane, an ex-Nazi who I play tennis with. The guy is a bad player and a worse sport. Let's get him back into the type of plane he brags he used to shoot down B-17s and let him get it into the air, preferably with the old gas in the tanks. This unreconstructed idiot has paintings of the plane in his den.
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posted on
07/23/2003 5:54:36 PM PDT
by
Paulus Invictus
(Pseudo conservatives are everywhere.)
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