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Final Approach
from an email today:
These are some good pictures and history of the aircraft - very unusual for an aircraft lost for so long.
This is a P-39 that was recently recovered from a lake in Russia. The aircraft went down in WWII and the pilot’s remains were still in the cockpit. Also in the cockpit was a can of lend lease cooked pork lard, onions, salt and spices - the lend lease version of SPAM?
Here is a link to the recovery and history of the P-39: Click on each of the small photos to bring them up to size.
http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm
These are some good pictures and history of the aircraft - very unusual for an aircraft lost for so long.
This is a P-39 that was recently recovered from a lake in Russia. The aircraft went down in WWII and the pilot’s remains were still in the cockpit. Also in the cockpit was a can of lend lease cooked pork lard, onions, salt and spices - the lend lease version of SPAM?
Here is a link to the recovery and history of the P-39: Click on each of the small photos to bring them up to size.
http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm
