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Rare WWII Junkers Ju 88 Pulled Up From Baltic Sea Floor

Junkers Ju 88
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Key Takeaways:

  • German military divers are recovering the rare wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88, a versatile WWII twin-engine aircraft, from the Baltic Sea.
  • Initially discovered by a fisherman in the 1990s and mistaken for a Stuka, the aircraft was later identified as a Junkers Ju 88, of which only a few remain worldwide.
  • The recovery efforts aim to determine who was flying the aircraft and why it crashed, with future dives planned to retrieve the majority of the wreckage that remains submerged.
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After lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than half a century, the wreckage of a rare Junkers Ju 88 is being brought to the surface by a group of German military divers.

The wreckage, located just off the coast of the German island of Rugen, was first found in the 1990s by a fisherman approximately 60 feet below the surface. After recovering small parts of the aircraft earlier in the week, experts initially thought the aircraft was a Stuka, a single engine dive-bomber known for the particularly striking noise it emits during power dives.

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