I’m currently investigating a 109 that crashed under a bridge and was never fully recovered. Access is difficult so even the military just left where it lay . Great finds my friend I’m sure that there is lots more up that hill…
@@agislycoudis4139 yes it’s a very interesting story, I’m thinking of recording it when I can travel there, talk to the locals and then see if I can find any evidence to really confirm that it’s there..
Great finds my friend. I am betting that the German recovery team didn't find much that was salvageable. A 109 hitting a block of granite at 200-300km/h will leave a mark or two on the nose of the aircraft. Finding even small items is great. It has been a good year, you found something you have been looking for, EE got to see something he always wanted too and we got great videos. What more can we ask for. Stay safe and well .
yes i agree William. I was so over the moon to find anything at all and to be honest if i hadnt found anything ai would have been just as happy just to be there :) Thanks and take care William )
I should imagine that the major pieces of wreckage were removed at the time of the crash. I know that wherever possible the Allies recovered as much as they could but when the crash site was remote or difficult to access, often left heavy components such as smashed engines and undercarriage legs. Lighter parts, such as sections of wing and tail and skinning, were usually removed and smelted down for reuse and of course, the remains of any crew were carefully recovered. I don't know if it was the same in Axis forces but I see no reason why they wouldn't follow a similar policy.
I’m always amazed at what you find in locations that are easily accessible. Many people have been close to this site, and weren’t aware of what is just lying around to be found.
Those heavier cast pieces are absolutely from an engine block. The unfired bullet looks to be a 7.92mm round from an MG17 Luftwaffe machine gun. Me-109 depending on model had different configurations of the MG17's and 20mm Cannon. Whatever happened to this airplane obviously a very high speed impact! Thanks for sharing!
Indeed my friend and i love the fact that about 99 % of the people standing there dont know what is just behind their backs :) Thank you so much for your kindness it is greatly appreciated and greetings from us.
I absolutely love your enthusiasm! Nobody else can make finding twisted metal garbage from World War II as exciting as you! Much love for you and EE from Wisconsin, USA!
Hello, im from Texas & I really like watching you metal detect & finding forgotten History. I also like the fact after you dig something up that you show a cleaner version of the objects instead of making everyone wait till the end when you show everything 🤘🏻
Amazing. So close and accessible, but I`m sure not many of the people living nearby even know that the 109 crashed there. You do an important job in your research and sharing the history.
Great research and thanks for sharing the site search. I found some pieces like that when detecting in the UK. Local man told me 2 RAF planes collided overhead in the 1960s. I had no idea. The parts were horribly twisted from the explosion. Very sobering
Amazing find, I wonder how many people have waited at that bus stop over the years without any idea of what had happened a few yards behind them and what was still remining. Great detective work my friend.
You are absolutely right when you say that history is everywhere these are absolutely amazing finds thank you for sharing these finds with me proud to be German
Nice finds, how many people go to this bus stop and don't have a clue what is on that hillside. These are the things that makes you the best at what you do. Thank you for sharing. Take care and stay safe my friend.
You were right my friend, there was plenty more, and what a find. That first item at about 5 mins, looks very much like something off of a wheel, or a brake system? possible undercarriage part? Those body parts, just laying a few cms underthe surface for all these years, and so close to a road. It make me wonder how many hundreds of people have walked past this site, never knowing the history there for them to see. Thank you again for such a wonderful video, and for sharing the finds with us. Stay safe and well my friend
Hello friend! I live in the states and I have been watching your videos for so long. I love that you find the connection with your findings. I mean that you can appreciate being in the presence of such important history
Outstanding! The yellow paint confirms the find. I have to imagine that you could spend a considerable amount of time looking around as the small items thrown off from the crash would have spread considerably. Great job!
Always impressed by the amount of research and investigation you put into finding these locations for us, and this one is just one fantastic example of your much appreciated, hard work. The 109 would have literally torn herself apart on that hillside, scattering pieces everywhere, but especially to the sides and upwards from the impact. The recovery crew would have only taken the large pieces, and what could be easily found, which is awesome for us, because this allowed out History Hunter to do what he does best. Show us the past in an amazing way. Great work my friend. Finding those 109 pieces in that little area was just fantastic. Well done! Cheers to you all! Stay Safe!
The BF109 was an awe-inspiring bird. So striking. I so hope that one day I will be able to ride high in one. I wish that I knew you HH when you were a little boy putting together your model planes. I bet you did a bang-up job. Was definitely a successful expedition, as you managed to find a yellow nose cone part and a engine block piece amongst other airplane parts. Can't help but wonder what happened to the pilot, did he survive and manage to make another flight? What was his personal history? That WAS incredible HH. Thanks for taking us there HH. Have to say I missed EE though.
How exciting to have all your research pay off and you have a dream come true!! Metal detecting that crash site delivered pieces of a WW2 aircraft. Only hard work could result in such an amazing discovery. It is so sweet to taste success when you didn't expect it! Awesome stuff HH!
I am always amazed by your investigations. I do wonder if the pilot survived or at least was identified to relatives. Such is the price of war sadly never paid by Politicians just those directed by them
Thank you for taking us along on this little adventure. It seemed that the first piece you pulled out had some sort of numbers on it 6:09 in the video. Would be nice f they are and you can definitively match it to that Bf 109. As always stay safe and keep smiling :)
WOW, imagine history lying There! History is everywhere. Love the small piece with some yellow paint still on it. Love it. Thanks for sharing this and, as always, looking forward to the next adventure. Stay safe. Hello to EE.
What incredible finds, HH! Engine parts, pieces of aluminum from the plane, and even a cartridge with a date! I'm so happy you found these pieces of your dream!💖
This is great stuff. I love this kinda thing. I grew up in Renfrew (next to Glasgow) on the river Clyde, and we used to find all manner of German Aircraft wreckage on the waste lands and bomb sites which were left as they were in wartime back in the 1970s! We found almost half of a Ju 87 Stukas port side tailplane and elevator. My Sister and I found a propeller blade (well maybe a third of it but it seemed huge to us) It was wooden and was painted black with a yellow tip which meant that it wasnt German. Our dad reckoned it was from a Gladiator because we lived next to Renfrew airport, before they demolished it, and apparently at wars start there was a squadron of Gloster Gladiators stationed there. But so were Spitfire Mk Is and Hurricanes and both had wooden props to begin with. I think even the later mks sometimes had wooden bladed props. Great memories and this programme brought it all back. Thanks!
What an exciting find. I know you were ecstatic about this site. Thank you once again for sharing these remarkable adventures into WWII history. And as always ' Good hunting '.
Your incredible finds tell a story of a violent impact crash. Just waw! History is in places we expect the least. But history is everywhere :)! Awesome video and keep up the great work at finding these fresh locations. I know it’s a lot of work! Sonia :)
With so many decades after the end of WW2, it's easy to assume that everything has been found & documented. Watching this will undoubtedly be an inspiration & reminder to some people that there are still relics out there waiting to be discovered.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Pieces of a Bf-109! Such a fantastic find my friend! It is so mind blowing that the site is just behind a bus stop! Thanks for taking us along on this one! Stay safe and stay well!
WOW amazing find. I can't imagine the impact of that plane into that rocky hillside. Those parts weren't waiting to rot away they where waiting for you to find them
Thank you for all the research you put into your efforts. The items you unearth are so often overlooked but they are as significant a piece of history as can be found anywhere. Keep up the good work.
When you found the aluminium with yellow nose paint it gave me goose bumps! Amazing find! I have family in Norway that made finds including a staff car. When the Germans left they just buried cars and things. I hope to visit some of these places before long. I have a son 4 years old thinking when he’s little older start an adventure like you’ve been doing! Thank you for taking myself and my little boy on these adventures with you!
I had models of many, many planes hung from my ceiling as a kid, but the thing that amazed me was when i visited a museum later in life and there were all the planes that i knew, but they were much smaller than i had imagined. Especially the Me 262, the first jet powered fighter. It didn't look either strong enough or big enough to fit jet engines in, plus the fact that so many pilots got into them and flew into combat in WW II. I still find your take on history ( which we were never taught about ) most fascinating. Great to see you out and about again.👍👍👍
Just for comparison, on January 21 1942 American actress Carole Lombard boarded a DC 3 along with 22 US serviceman headed for Los Angeles California. It was nighttime and due to navigational error or instrument failure the plane crashed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Las Vegas. Today if you hike up to the crash site you can still see the engine block and cylinder head still attached and intact in one piece. Anything is possible, but I would be surprised if the Messerschmidt engine shattered on impact at your location. It's also possible that parts of your aircraft including the engine block were hauled away years ago as scrap. Thanks for your cool video's which have resulted in some amazing finds over the years!
Forgot to mention when I was a little boy 7 or 8 years old walking to school, being adventurous I climbed and looked over this wall into a persons backyard. And to my amazement was a BF-109 in pieces! The fuselage was mostly complete but wings were off and pieces scattered. I don’t know what happened to it? Decades ago and ownership of the home has changed many times now. I’ll never forget it and is why this episode is special to me.
I enjoyed the hunt so much , just waiting to see what is coming out on the edge of my seat ! Amazing! The location what great . It was so beautiful there hard to believe that was a crash site . E E missed you! HH thank you for the great video ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Be careful! Be safe !
Another amazing discovery and even more chilling when you think that a young man was in charge of that machine moments before it plowed into that cliff face. Thank you HH.
Thanks for the video HH, this was a fantastic find, was the road there in the war and was it a bus stop then. Some great pieces of the piston block and yellow nose paint on a piece of the body too!!😎🍂🍁🍂🍁🇬🇧🇺🇦
Amazing..important that was documented released and alive in some way..reliving history so we can possibly understand yet.haven't progressed much..So glad you sharing your Discovery with us.. maybe we can understand more about these brave persons who lived and died for their beliefs.. perhaps a piece to the family would be in order..spark correspondence to the lives..Awesome good work..Hope your doing well thanks for your work have a super day !
BF 109 Messerschmitt yellow nose cone paint is a great positive identifier! Very exciting find with an original 1941 cartridge! History has a way of finding you! Say hello to Eagle Eyes for me and I hope you're both feeling better!
Agree my friend and so glad those small pieces of paint was still there to see. Very glad to have found and shared that with you. Take care and greetings from us.
Enjoyed the intro with the clips of that era. As mentioned before, scenery on most of your adventures is breathtaking. Wouldn't mind just hoping on board that Scandinavian cruise line. Your research paid off HH as you found many BF109 airplane parts and that 1941 unspent aircraft cartridge. Looking forward to further expeditions. Stay safe.
This is one of favourite vids who would know there was a crashed plane behind a bus stop. What amazes me is how you find this out and I like the all your vids and thanks for sharing.
Many pieces from the engine, no doubt! Good job and very interesting. NOTE: Too bad you didn't take detailed GPS locations for each piece found - not just angle of impact but perhaps a bit more about the spread and where other pieces could be found, yes?
@@WW2HistoryHunter No problem. Archaeology is a type of forensics. I volunteered at a dig in Lebanon and I learned a lot. It's like a 2500 year old crime scene. You're dealing with about 80 years. Good luck!
Another fantastic video. Thank you so much. The 109 is my favourite aircraft of all time. We have an original paint/markings 109G-6 here in Australia. Very rare to have the original RLM74/75/76 colours. Best wishes, Paul.
Imagine how many people have sat at that bus stop not realizing that history was just behind them. You really have to do some research to find locations like this. I would imagine that most crash sites were well documented by the Germans. Are those documents accessible to anyone? At one point in the video I was expecting you to lean back a little bit to far and go tumbling down the hillside. Did you make it to the top in your search? Some nice little finds that were there.
There is a Messerschmidt ME 109E in a large pond at Hoo Junction Railway yard, in Higham Kent, it crashed/was shot down in 1940 during the BOB, attempts were made to recover it in the 1980’s but the fuselage was too deep in the mud, the wings, machine guns and some other parts were recovered by the Royal Engineers regiment though
Have you done any research in identifying the aircraft details and the pilot etc. That would add interest to the story and history. Thanks for the video! 👀👍
Man you scored big on this location find for metal detecting great job even finding small pieces and even munition cartridges. Woulda been awesome to find one big piece of aircraft sheet metal but I'm sure the Germans probably took all the big pieces they found that day after the fire got put out from the crash. Great job HH EE greetings and much love from the states. Oh have you tried the vanilla dabbing for the mosquitoes on your adventure like I suggested. Take care hope you're doing better than the last video you had to go to emergency room.
yes larger pieces must have been cleaned out much earlier. Great place to discover. I havent tried that remind me of what that was please and i will try. Thanks my friend.
@@WW2HistoryHunter it was a bottle of vanilla extract like what ya get in baking aisle in grocery store just dab it on your skin supposed to be a keep them away thing they hate vanilla
What an amazing find at such an unexpected area! It blows my mind to actually see you dig the pieces of that aircraft behind a bus stop of all places! Wow! Simply astounding! Who would have ever even imagined such? Thank you for taking me along on this wonderful adventure. I love the places and the history of each and every one. Take care and stay safe my friend. 💖💯
So cool to see German aviation history come out of the ground. Great job History Hunter!!!! Eagle Eyes, we missed ya on this one buddy!!! Hope to see you again soon!!! I accidentally skip 1 ad....just 1 I'm sorry.
Watching from Jamaica. Very little of the war was fought in my area but a lot of training took place and I have a piece of a B-26 Bomber that crashed during one such mission. All 6 on board died and the copilots family made contact with me.
I was at Sullivan Barracks Mannheim , 86-88, and shortly before I got there, they found 50 PAK(?) 75mm AT guns closely parked in a line , right outside our back gate , in woods/brush of our training area .
Very well done, amazing finds especially the cartridge dated, don't forget the gardening tools and snips, they'll save you a lot of time, work and less chance of damaging the finds like a shovel will.
@@WW2HistoryHunter Good morning, it's me to thank you all for the work you do. Now you think EE gets excited, you'd have your hands full with me around, I'd be dressed up in some uniform with a mine detector, yes I'm a ham, I'd end up digging up Europe.
What an amazing discovery! It is just mind boggling to think that those pieces have been sitting there in the ground for almost eighty years! With me being in the United States, it simply amazes me that there are still artifacts of the second world War all across Europe. It really puts into perspective the size and scope of the German war machine! Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next adventure. 👍
There are people here in the US who seek out long ago crash sites and search with metal detectors to see if there are metal fragments that they can add to their collection. For example, a civilian airliner (I think a DC6) crashed many years ago in a field near Centralia, PA, north of where I live. Im not into metal detecting but I’d bet that there are still aluminum fragments in the ground.
I just stumbled on to your channel very exciting finding pieces of your favorite type of aircraft. I am subscribing to your channel. I live on Outerbanks of NC not far from where Wright brothers flew for the first time. But of course we don’t have war time historical like Europe has but we do have huge National parks dedicated to our civil war. Have a great day I look forward to more exciting videos!
Thank you for sharing, I am jealous! That is a bucket list/dream job to do archeological digs for WWII history! Great positive videos of a very non-positive era!
I’m currently investigating a 109 that crashed under a bridge and was never fully recovered. Access is difficult so even the military just left where it lay .
Great finds my friend I’m sure that there is lots more up that hill…
Thanks for watching
Wow fascinating! I what country is that?
France, I’m told in went in near to vertical, under the arches of the bridge.
@@preonmodel9906 woah! you dont hear about something like that every day
@@agislycoudis4139 yes it’s a very interesting story, I’m thinking of recording it when I can travel there, talk to the locals and then see if I can find any evidence to really confirm that it’s there..
Great finds my friend. I am betting that the German recovery team didn't find much that was salvageable. A 109 hitting a block of granite at 200-300km/h will leave a mark or two on the nose of the aircraft. Finding even small items is great. It has been a good year, you found something you have been looking for, EE got to see something he always wanted too and we got great videos. What more can we ask for. Stay safe and well .
yes i agree William. I was so over the moon to find anything at all and to be honest if i hadnt found anything ai would have been just as happy just to be there :) Thanks and take care William )
I should imagine that the major pieces of wreckage were removed at the time of the crash. I know that wherever possible the Allies recovered as much as they could but when the crash site was remote or difficult to access, often left heavy components such as smashed engines and undercarriage legs. Lighter parts, such as sections of wing and tail and skinning, were usually removed and smelted down for reuse and of course, the remains of any crew were carefully recovered. I don't know if it was the same in Axis forces but I see no reason why they wouldn't follow a similar policy.
yeah, 'a mark on the nose.'
I’m always amazed at what you find in locations that are easily accessible. Many people have been close to this site, and weren’t aware of what is just lying around to be found.
Indeed and that is what makes it so special my friend. Thanks :)
Those heavier cast pieces are absolutely from an engine block. The unfired bullet looks to be a 7.92mm round from an MG17 Luftwaffe machine gun. Me-109 depending on model had different configurations of the MG17's and 20mm Cannon. Whatever happened to this airplane obviously a very high speed impact! Thanks for sharing!
Great explore and thanks for being here Jim :)
Not only MG 17 and MG FF/Ms and MG 151, also some with MG 131 13mm machine guns, and MK 108 30mm cannons in pods
The fine thread on the aluminium casting looks like an oil seal - two close together suggests they are probably camshaft seals.
Amazing that pieces of a Bf 109 are still lying around after all these years, thanks for bringing us on this journey
I agree Iain and so glad we came across this and could share it with you :)
Heck of a long time waiting for the bus. Amazing finds, amazes me that there are still so many things still out there.
Indeed my friend and i love the fact that about 99 % of the people standing there dont know what is just behind their backs :) Thank you so much for your kindness it is greatly appreciated and greetings from us.
I absolutely love your enthusiasm! Nobody else can make finding twisted metal garbage from World War II as exciting as you! Much love for you and EE from Wisconsin, USA!
Wow so glad to read that and thanks so much for being here with us my friend :)
His children are blessed to be gaining knowledge most ppl around the world will never get / know
Thanks!
I get so excited when you dig for things and when you find something I almost feel what you must. Awsome, really awesome.
Appreciated my friend and thanks for your kindness. Greetings from us.
@@WW2HistoryHunter you mentioned in a previous episode that you were going to surprise EE by visiting a place he always wanted to. Have you yet ?
Hello, im from Texas & I really like watching you metal detect & finding forgotten History. I also like the fact after you dig something up that you show a cleaner version of the objects instead of making everyone wait till the end when you show everything 🤘🏻
Awesome thank you!
Yessir, youre welcome!
Woohoo, another Texan!
The WW 2 History Hunter team does it again. Another Great find.
Outstanding video and presentation.
Thank you my friend.
Excellent ! My two favorite things , the 109 and metal detecting in one video. Your investigating skills are spooky. Good stuff my friend.
There you go and thanks for being here Dave :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter where is the crash site?
Amazing. So close and accessible, but I`m sure not many of the people living nearby even know that the 109 crashed there. You do an important job in your research and sharing the history.
i agree i bet around 99 % of the people standing there in the bus stop has no idea :) Thanks.
Great research and thanks for sharing the site search. I found some pieces like that when detecting in the UK. Local man told me 2 RAF planes collided overhead in the 1960s. I had no idea. The parts were horribly twisted from the explosion. Very sobering
Yes these places can be very special to find. Thanks for watching.
I'm so glad it was you HH that found this exciting site, and hope you'll have much more to show us as time rolls on... Be well and careful my friend.
Loved to have that experience Ted and so glad i could share it. We hope you are doing better now my friend and our greetings to you from us.
Amazing find, I wonder how many people have waited at that bus stop over the years without any idea of what had happened a few yards behind them and what was still remining. Great detective work my friend.
So truen my friend and exciting place it is. Thanks and greetings from us.
Great find and episode! You are definitely on a roll. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
You are absolutely right when you say that history is everywhere these are absolutely amazing finds thank you for sharing these finds with me proud to be German
There you go and thanks Kenneth :)
I'm envious. Wish I could find parts of a Bf-109. Absolutely incredible.
Very glad we could share this with you Mark and greetings from us.
Nice finds, how many people go to this bus stop and don't have a clue what is on that hillside. These are the things that makes you the best at what you do. Thank you for sharing. Take care and stay safe my friend.
I agree wonder how many know what is behind their back. Thanks Allen and very proud to have you here with us.
You were right my friend, there was plenty more, and what a find. That first item at about 5 mins, looks very much like something off of a wheel, or a brake system? possible undercarriage part? Those body parts, just laying a few cms underthe surface for all these years, and so close to a road. It make me wonder how many hundreds of people have walked past this site, never knowing the history there for them to see. Thank you again for such a wonderful video, and for sharing the finds with us. Stay safe and well my friend
this is a very interesting place and who knows what more could be there. Thanks Barry and more to come :)
Your thumbnails are so good--draw you right into the action! :D 👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thanks for watching.
Hello friend! I live in the states and I have been watching your videos for so long. I love that you find the connection with your findings. I mean that you can appreciate being in the presence of such important history
That is appreciated my friend and greetings from us.
Great work finding identifiable parts with paint! Sad for the pilot but you are keeping his memory alive by refinding the crash site : )
yes those tiny yellow paint marks is what i loved the most. Kind of sealed the deal sort of speak :) Thanks my friend.
Outstanding! The yellow paint confirms the find. I have to imagine that you could spend a considerable amount of time looking around as the small items thrown off from the crash would have spread considerably. Great job!
yes pieces could fly off hundreds of meters and who knows what more could be there. Thanks for watching.
Always impressed by the amount of research and investigation you put into finding these locations for us, and this one is just one fantastic example of your much appreciated, hard work. The 109 would have literally torn herself apart on that hillside, scattering pieces everywhere, but especially to the sides and upwards from the impact. The recovery crew would have only taken the large pieces, and what could be easily found, which is awesome for us, because this allowed out History Hunter to do what he does best. Show us the past in an amazing way. Great work my friend. Finding those 109 pieces in that little area was just fantastic. Well done! Cheers to you all! Stay Safe!
It just proves that history can e found almost anywhere if one just try. Thank you Peter for your great support and a massive greetings from us :)
The BF109 was an awe-inspiring bird. So striking. I so hope that one day I will be able to ride high in one. I wish that I knew you HH when you were a little boy putting together your model planes. I bet you did a bang-up job. Was definitely a successful expedition, as you managed to find a yellow nose cone part and a engine block piece amongst other airplane parts. Can't help but wonder what happened to the pilot, did he survive and manage to make another flight? What was his personal history? That WAS incredible HH. Thanks for taking us there HH. Have to say I missed EE though.
Yes , being a young boy and building models was a great moment in time Laura. SO much fun and learning every day. Pilot died there. Thanks Laura.
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else and thank you for sharing your adventures in history
Good afternoon to you from a former Syracusan.
Hello Earl and greetings my friend :)
Outstanding adventures
How exciting to have all your research pay off and you have a dream come true!! Metal detecting that crash site delivered pieces of a WW2 aircraft. Only hard work could result in such an amazing discovery. It is so sweet to taste success when you didn't expect it! Awesome stuff HH!
Very glad we found that and thanks again Beverley for your great support :)
I am always amazed by your investigations. I do wonder if the pilot survived or at least was identified to relatives. Such is the price of war sadly never paid by Politicians just those directed by them
Interesting place indeed Stephen and glad we could share that with you :)
Thank you for taking us along on this little adventure. It seemed that the first piece you pulled out had some sort of numbers on it 6:09 in the video. Would be nice f they are and you can definitively match it to that Bf 109. As always stay safe and keep smiling :)
Will check again as i didnt see any numbers but could be my friend. Great place and thanks for being here.
WOW, imagine history lying There! History is everywhere. Love the small piece with some yellow paint still on it. Love it. Thanks for sharing this and, as always, looking forward to the next adventure. Stay safe. Hello to EE.
Agree Colleen , those tiny pieces are so interesting to find. Thanks and greetings from us.
Gives me chills when you find these amazing pieces. The anticipation is crazy….awesome
You and me both!
What incredible finds, HH! Engine parts, pieces of aluminum from the plane, and even a cartridge with a date! I'm so happy you found these pieces of your dream!💖
Loved the cartridge that kind of sealed the deal of a time frame :) Thanks Cynthia :)
Maybe the cartridge they used to put down the pilot
Another great location! Amazing how you find these locations and bring it to us!! Thank you and be safe!
Thanks so much joe :)
This was a great adventure. I’m glad I got to see you find these great pieces.
Very glad you are here Mary and greetings from us.
This is great stuff. I love this kinda thing. I grew up in Renfrew (next to Glasgow) on the river Clyde, and we used to find all manner of German Aircraft wreckage on the waste lands and bomb sites which were left as they were in wartime back in the 1970s! We found almost half of a Ju 87 Stukas port side tailplane and elevator. My Sister and I found a propeller blade (well maybe a third of it but it seemed huge to us) It was wooden and was painted black with a yellow tip which meant that it wasnt German. Our dad reckoned it was from a Gladiator because we lived next to Renfrew airport, before they demolished it, and apparently at wars start there was a squadron of Gloster Gladiators stationed there. But so were Spitfire Mk Is and Hurricanes and both had wooden props to begin with. I think even the later mks sometimes had wooden bladed props. Great memories and this programme brought it all back. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing and for watching my friend.
What an exciting find. I know you were ecstatic about this site. Thank you once again for sharing these remarkable adventures into WWII history. And as always ' Good hunting '.
Appreciated my friend :)
Your incredible finds tell a story of a violent impact crash. Just waw! History is in places we expect the least. But history is everywhere :)! Awesome video and keep up the great work at finding these fresh locations. I know it’s a lot of work!
Sonia :)
Indeed my friend it is and thanks for being here :)
What a amazing find can't believe those parts.
Just smaller things but loved to find that :) Thanks Jacob and we wish you a great weekend :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter I hope you have a good weekend to.
With so many decades after the end of WW2, it's easy to assume that everything has been found & documented. Watching this will undoubtedly be an inspiration & reminder to some people that there are still relics out there waiting to be discovered.
Appreciate you watching.
Absolutely amazing! I’ve been watching you for years accross the sea! An I think this is one of the best finds you had! Keep it up!
Thank you! Will do and you being here is greatly appreciated :)
Many congratulations on these amazing finds - your in-depth research has paid off yet again! More to come, I hope?
Indeed and yes more to come my friend :)
I love it when you find aircraft parts. I get excited to see what you uncover. Good luck on all your searches foe new crash sites!
I always get excited when it comes to this kind of stuff my friend :) Thanks.
Thanks!
Thanks for that my friend :)
Wow! Wow! Wow! Pieces of a Bf-109! Such a fantastic find my friend! It is so mind blowing that the site is just behind a bus stop! Thanks for taking us along on this one! Stay safe and stay well!
Thanks again Donald and yes a real Bf109 was there. Thanks and more to come :)
You keep working hard for your viewers man, thanks for that😍👌🏻
I do think we do and very glad you are here :)
What a great video, I share your excitement in finding parts 🙂
😊 thank you
WOW amazing find. I can't imagine the impact of that plane into that rocky hillside. Those parts weren't waiting to rot away they where waiting for you to find them
So glad they did and thanks for being here :)
Thank you for all the research you put into your efforts. The items you unearth are so often overlooked but they are as significant a piece of history as can be found anywhere. Keep up the good work.
Just brilliant! As always you never fail to amaze us with your research, findings and videos! 👌🙂
Thanks again!
So amazing. I wouldn’t even know how to begin to know where to look. Your research work is under appreciated.
I appreciate that my friend :)
That was a great find. Keep up the good work and remember: History is Everywhere.
Indeed and thanks for being here :)
When you found the aluminium with yellow nose paint it gave me goose bumps! Amazing find!
I have family in Norway that made finds including a staff car. When the Germans left they just buried cars and things.
I hope to visit some of these places before long. I have a son 4 years old thinking when he’s little older start an adventure like you’ve been doing!
Thank you for taking myself and my little boy on these adventures with you!
We greatly appreciate you being here and say hello from us to your son and be safe out there :)
I had models of many, many planes hung from my ceiling as a kid, but the thing that amazed me was when i visited a museum later in life and there were all the planes that i knew, but they were much smaller than i had imagined. Especially the Me 262, the first jet powered fighter. It didn't look either strong enough or big enough to fit jet engines in, plus the fact that so many pilots got into them and flew into combat in WW II. I still find your take on history ( which we were never taught about ) most fascinating. Great to see you out and about again.👍👍👍
Thank you my friend and greetings from us.
Thanks for your work. Enjoy your hard work! Hope you and yours are doing well.
Thanks, you too!
Just for comparison, on January 21 1942 American actress Carole Lombard boarded a DC 3 along with 22 US serviceman headed for Los Angeles California. It was nighttime and due to navigational error or instrument failure the plane crashed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Las Vegas. Today if you hike up to the crash site you can still see the engine block and cylinder head still attached and intact in one piece.
Anything is possible, but I would be surprised if the Messerschmidt engine shattered on impact at your location. It's also possible that parts of your aircraft including the engine block were hauled away years ago as scrap. Thanks for your cool video's which have resulted in some amazing finds over the years!
Most likely so and thanks for sharing and for watching.
Great find! What metal detector are you using?
Using several types but here a Nokta machine and pretty good one actually. Thanks.
Forgot to mention when I was a little boy 7 or 8 years old walking to school, being adventurous I climbed and looked over this wall into a persons backyard. And to my amazement was a BF-109 in pieces!
The fuselage was mostly complete but wings were off and pieces scattered. I don’t know what happened to it? Decades ago and ownership of the home has changed many times now. I’ll never forget it and is why this episode is special to me.
wow must have been so interesting to see my friend. Greetings from us and be safe :)
Another fine video, with great historical finds. The effort you put in to your channel is exceptional.
Thank you for that my friend :)
I enjoyed the hunt so much , just waiting to see what is coming out on the edge of my seat ! Amazing! The location what great . It was so beautiful there hard to believe that was a crash site . E E missed you! HH thank you for the great video ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Be careful! Be safe !
Great explore it was and thanks Mark :)
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That iron fragment when you found the 8mm mg round was part of a belt link....
ok and thanks for watching.
What an amazing find! Thanks again.
All our pleasure and thanks :)
What some fantastic finds.
Thank you for searching and finding these places for our enjoyment
Appreciated Doug and more to come :)
Another amazing discovery and even more chilling when you think that a young man was in charge of that machine moments before it plowed into that cliff face. Thank you HH.
Couldn't agree more and thanks for being here :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter maybe he had a working chute
Hi HH
Understand your excitement must be a great
Feeling finding something that you have a fondness for
Cheers
You got that right Martin and i loved to find that. Thanks Martin.
Thanks for the video HH, this was a fantastic find, was the road there in the war and was it a bus stop then. Some great pieces of the piston block and yellow nose paint on a piece of the body too!!😎🍂🍁🍂🍁🇬🇧🇺🇦
Yes the road was there and even the bus stop and strangely enough a passenger waiting for the bus saw it happen. Thanks Christopher.
Some of those pieces should be easily identified...... be great if you found a model number on a part to identify the airframe, and the pilot.
Thanks for watching.
Amazing..important that was documented released and alive in some way..reliving history so we can possibly understand yet.haven't progressed much..So glad you sharing your Discovery with us.. maybe we can understand more about these brave persons who lived and died for their beliefs.. perhaps a piece to the family would be in order..spark correspondence to the lives..Awesome good work..Hope your doing well thanks for your work have a super day !
Thanks for comment and for watching.
Thx for that amazing video! I hope you find much more from the 109!
Appreciated and greetings from us.
BF 109 Messerschmitt yellow nose cone paint is a great positive identifier! Very exciting find with an original 1941 cartridge!
History has a way of finding you! Say hello to Eagle Eyes for me and I hope you're both feeling better!
Agree my friend and so glad those small pieces of paint was still there to see. Very glad to have found and shared that with you. Take care and greetings from us.
Jawohl, WWII History Hunter it has been an incredible opportunity to tag along on with on another spectacular adventure!
Klaus
Thanks :)
Good stuff m8. Keep up the good work, and stay vertical!
Thanks, will do!
Enjoyed the intro with the clips of that era. As mentioned before, scenery on most of your adventures is breathtaking. Wouldn't mind just hoping on board that Scandinavian cruise line. Your research paid off HH as you found many BF109 airplane parts and that 1941 unspent aircraft cartridge. Looking forward to further expeditions. Stay safe.
It is truly a very special thing to be allowed to do. find history and share history. Thank you Laura for being here.
Fun adventure. Thanks for preserving history visually!
Appreciated and greetings from us.
That piece of the engine cowl with the yellow paint on it is, to me an amazing find indeed! Well done….
I Agree and so glad we could share that with you :) Thanks.
Thanks
Thank you my friend for that :)
This is one of favourite vids who would know there was a crashed plane behind a bus stop. What amazes me is how you find this out and I like the all your vids and thanks for sharing.
Great explore and tons of research behind it all :) Thanks my friend.
Many pieces from the engine, no doubt! Good job and very interesting. NOTE: Too bad you didn't take detailed GPS locations for each piece found - not just angle of impact but perhaps a bit more about the spread and where other pieces could be found, yes?
Thanks for the tips!
@@WW2HistoryHunter No problem. Archaeology is a type of forensics. I volunteered at a dig in Lebanon and I learned a lot. It's like a 2500 year old crime scene. You're dealing with about 80 years. Good luck!
Another fantastic video. Thank you so much. The 109 is my favourite aircraft of all time. We have an original paint/markings 109G-6 here in Australia. Very rare to have the original RLM74/75/76 colours. Best wishes, Paul.
Thanks for that and for being here.
Imagine how many people have sat at that bus stop not realizing that history was just behind them. You really have to do some research to find locations like this. I would imagine that most crash sites were well documented by the Germans. Are those documents accessible to anyone? At one point in the video I was expecting you to lean back a little bit to far and go tumbling down the hillside. Did you make it to the top in your search? Some nice little finds that were there.
Yes pretty awesome to find locations like this and then find pieces of the past being there. Thanks Anthony.
There is a Messerschmidt ME 109E in a large pond at Hoo Junction Railway yard, in Higham Kent, it crashed/was shot down in 1940 during the BOB, attempts were made to recover it in the 1980’s but the fuselage was too deep in the mud, the wings, machine guns and some other parts were recovered by the Royal Engineers regiment though
Interesting that is and thanks for sharing and for watching.
Have you done any research in identifying the aircraft details and the pilot etc. That would add interest to the story and history. Thanks for the video! 👀👍
We have not yet but perhaps in the future. Thanks.
Man you scored big on this location find for metal detecting great job even finding small pieces and even munition cartridges. Woulda been awesome to find one big piece of aircraft sheet metal but I'm sure the Germans probably took all the big pieces they found that day after the fire got put out from the crash. Great job HH EE greetings and much love from the states. Oh have you tried the vanilla dabbing for the mosquitoes on your adventure like I suggested. Take care hope you're doing better than the last video you had to go to emergency room.
yes larger pieces must have been cleaned out much earlier. Great place to discover. I havent tried that remind me of what that was please and i will try. Thanks my friend.
@@WW2HistoryHunter it was a bottle of vanilla extract like what ya get in baking aisle in grocery store just dab it on your skin supposed to be a keep them away thing they hate vanilla
@@ryanh.8472 I may try that myself Ryan. Living in south Georgia we have a big mosquito problem. Thanks for the tip.
What an amazing find at such an unexpected area! It blows my mind to actually see you dig the pieces of that aircraft behind a bus stop of all places! Wow! Simply astounding! Who would have ever even imagined such? Thank you for taking me along on this wonderful adventure. I love the places and the history of each and every one. Take care and stay safe my friend. 💖💯
Thank YOU Julie for your great support :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter I'll be here until I can't. Lol
Now I’ll check every bus stop in Oregon for a strike eagle.
There you go and thanks my friend :)
So cool to see German aviation history come out of the ground. Great job History Hunter!!!! Eagle Eyes, we missed ya on this one buddy!!! Hope to see you again soon!!! I accidentally skip 1 ad....just 1 I'm sorry.
HE he , well thanks you no matter what for being here with us :)
How awesome and what a find. As always we love the holy pancakes and look forward to the next upload - Emma & Rick 👍🏼
Thanks so much!
Watching from Jamaica. Very little of the war was fought in my area but a lot of training took place and I have a piece of a B-26 Bomber that crashed during one such mission. All 6 on board died and the copilots family made contact with me.
Interesting to read and thank for being here.
I was at Sullivan Barracks Mannheim , 86-88, and shortly before I got there, they found 50 PAK(?) 75mm AT guns closely parked in a line , right outside our back gate , in woods/brush of our training area .
Must have been interesting and thanks for watching.
such amazing finds right under people's noses , great video 👍
Thanks 👍
He hit that hillside hard to turn a 601 into tiny bits. Thanks brother, Nice find..
Thanks 👍
Have you ever found a USA plane bits? If so do you have a video of it. I watched a lot of your videos but I haven’t came across one yet.
we have but we have never shared video if that. Thanks for watching.
Very well done, amazing finds especially the cartridge dated, don't forget the gardening tools and snips, they'll save you a lot of time, work and less chance of damaging the finds like a shovel will.
Thank you William and greetings from us :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter Good morning, it's me to thank you all for the work you do. Now you think EE gets excited, you'd have your hands full with me around, I'd be dressed up in some uniform with a mine detector, yes I'm a ham, I'd end up digging up Europe.
Great find once again. You’re enthusiasm always so present.. “WOW, look at this”.. likewise enjoy your “ cleaned up pieces” of such history..
SWFL,
Thank you for the kind words and greetings from us.
What an amazing discovery! It is just mind boggling to think that those pieces have been sitting there in the ground for almost eighty years! With me being in the United States, it simply amazes me that there are still artifacts of the second world War all across Europe. It really puts into perspective the size and scope of the German war machine! Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next adventure. 👍
There are wand will be thousands of locations and pieces in the ground. Thanks Christopher.
There are people here in the US who seek out long ago crash sites and search with metal detectors to see if there are metal fragments that they can add to their collection. For example, a civilian airliner (I think a DC6) crashed many years ago in a field near Centralia, PA, north of where I live. Im not into metal detecting but I’d bet that there are still aluminum fragments in the ground.
Amazing! Do we know the full story of the downed plane?
Work in progress and thanks for watching.
@@WW2HistoryHunter brilliant! Thank you (and your son ☺️) for the great content. Best wishes from Scotland.
I just stumbled on to your channel very exciting finding pieces of your favorite type of aircraft. I am subscribing to your channel. I live on Outerbanks of NC not far from where Wright brothers flew for the first time. But of course we don’t have war time historical like Europe has but we do have huge National parks dedicated to our civil war. Have a great day I look forward to more exciting videos!
Thanks for being here :)
Thank you for sharing, I am jealous! That is a bucket list/dream job to do archeological digs for WWII history! Great positive videos of a very non-positive era!
Thanks for being here :)
Awesome find!!!! Great work, fantastic video!!!!!
Thanks again!
History is everywhere, back in my old school there was this closed off location which still had bomb shrapnel from WW2 Japanese bombers
There you go and thanks for sharing and for watching.