Forgotten WWII 'Lightning' fighter found on beach in Wales

TexAV8R · 11-15-2007, 09:33 AM

P38F Lightning to be recovered from Welsh beach news - Aeroplane Magazine - History in the Air

Welsh Lightning

NEW YORK (AP) - Sixty-five years after it ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, an American P-38 fighter plane has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried - a World War II relic long forgotten by the U.S. government and unknown to the British public...

Mystère · 11-15-2007, 06:12 PM

Probably one of the last places I would have tought of to find a P-38 !

champpitbull2 · 11-15-2007, 07:01 PM

It's amazing how much hardware, munitions, and bodies still litter the European landscape after all of these years. Like this plane hopefully someday we can find them all and bring them home.

Justino · 11-15-2007, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by champpitbull2

It's amazing how much hardware, munitions, and bodies still litter the European landscape after all of these years. Like this plane hopefully someday we can find them all and bring them home.

Not just Europe either! Here in Orlando, they are finding old bombs, some of them are dummy bombs, from the 1940s and 50s when all this area in Orlando was a giant bombing range for the Air Force at McCoy AFB. Most of them have been found in local neighborhoods and around some elementary and middle schools in the area.

champpitbull2 · 11-15-2007, 10:14 PM

You're right, I should have said the world.