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Originally posted by Joeaksa
If its taking 90 years to find a the largest bomber in WW1 that crashed in the middle of one of the most populated parts of Europe, wonder how long it will take to find the WMD and Nuke reactor parts in Iraq?
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sorry Joe, but that analogy isn't that good
for one thing, Westrozebeke was pretty much No man's land
few places on earth have ever been shelled so intensely as that patch of mud...
which brings me to the second point... the land itself, was mud
anything in it, pretty much sank in the bottom
it's a known thing that that sort of land , like oceans , renews itself , upper layers take turns with lower layers, dunno how to explain this, but it just does , the land moves...(although i'm sure deserts have a similar movement)
3rd point is the construction of the plane itself, it was the largest wooden airframe known to man , untill Howard Hughest made Spruce Goose... combine this with point #1, and you'll understand that very little more then some nuts and bolts where found, they did not find a wreck in the sense that it still looked like an airplane...
especially #1 and #3 are important here...
i'll try and get some pictures of the find itself, this Johan Vanbeselaere is a relative, his the son of my Grandfathers youngest brother...haven't been in touch with him since he was my teacher when i was 14-15 ( he taught computer class).. but i know where i can find him...just sent him an email, if i don't get anything back, i'll pay him a visit when i go in a few weeks... at the wake for my recently departed Grandfather , Johan's father , had been telling stories bout the post war era, and i have an open invitation for more stories... and i was planning to take up the invitation...he's a great story teller...