Boy Discovers WWII Nazi Warplane That Crashed on Family Farm
March 9, 2017 - What started as a joke turned out to be a significant World War II discovery. A boy near Birkelse, Denmark, received a homework assignment to do research on WWII. His dad recalled a story from his grandfather about a plane crashing on their farm during the war. So he jokingly told the boy, 14-year-old Daniel Rom Kristiansen, to go searching for the plane. A metal detector led them to a buried German WWII Messerschmitt Bf 109 plane and they also found skeletal remains of its pilot.
Read more about how the discovery unfolded and what else was found at the site.
Near Birkelse, Denmark
A metal detector led this boy to a historic discovery on his family’s farm.
He and his dad uncovered a Nazi warplane and the remains of its pilot.
The dad's grandfather had told him the story of a plane crashing there more than 70 years ago.
The plane, a Messerschmitt Bf 109, was one of the most commonly used German fighter planes.
