Found within the Russian Artic Circle

There's something about finding an object from another time. It makes us wonder- who used this? Who were they?

The November 2008 issue of Veterans Magazine contains an interesting article on a P39 found at the bottom of Lake Mart-Yavr within the Russian Artic Circle in the summer of 2004. The recovery crew was concerned to see that both doors of the cockpit were closed- one should have been opened through which the pilot made his exit before the plane crashed.

For an unknown reason the pilot had not exited.

"Missing for 60 years, the pilot was buried on 6 October 2004 with full military honours at the Glory Valley Memorial, near the Litza Valley, NW of Murmansk."

There were other discoveries reported in the article. The magazine will be filed with the WWII archives here at the library for those who would like to read an interesting article.