Does anyone remember a story about a WWII airplane that was discovered in a river several years ago? It may have been in England. Or possibly The Netherlands or France. I have an idea it was a P-47, but it could have been a Lancaster for all I know. I don’t remember when I heard the story, but I think it was within the last decade.
Are you thinking of this one?
Hm… I’m not sure. I do remember that one though, now that you mention it.
Perhaps those found in a glacier in Greenland?
Not the OP’s plane, but similar story:
No, this was in England (I think) or on the Continent. A friend thinks she heard about it on BBC about a year ago. Of course, memory is a tricky thing. I remember things from ‘about a year ago’, and they’ve been three or four years old.
Sure you’re not thinking of this bomb found in a river?
No, it wasn’t a tank.
I don’t know what she’s thinking of. Although I kinda-sorta remember another plane than the P-38, the P-38 is probably the one I was thinking of. ISTR some remains associated with a plane that was found, and something about a German plane being uncovered in England not too long ago.
How about in a lake in South Carolina? I got one of them for you.
No, I think he is talking about Bade Ruth’s piano that a group of people are looking for in a pond outside of Boston. They haven’t found it yet though.
From here: http://www.sunjournal.com/node/102449
“WW2 plane found in wales” was a P38. Article dated 2007.
:smack: Sorry. Duplicated the work in post #2.
Bits of P47 found in farmland in Germany.
Interesting. I saw the episode of Dogfights.
The pilot has a wiki page.
Perhaps you are thinking of the Handley-Page Halifaxbomber that was fished out of a lake in Norway?
It is on display at CFB Trenton now.
Don’t know if this is the same one Quartz referred to:
NOVA episode “Frozen in Time,” an almost-intact B-29 bomber, nicknamed the Kee Bird, became lost and crash-landed in Greenland while on a secret mission. [del]It was in a lake, though, not a river, IIRC.[/del]
I don’t know what crash she is thinking of. I know it’s not the Kee Bird. (Man, it’s a good thing I knew what was coming before that show first aired. If I hadn’t read about it in one of the flying magazines just after the recovery attempt, I would have been devastated!) She’s certain it was a plane found in a river in England, and believes it was a Lancaster. I think if it was a Lanc I would have remembered it, so I doubt it was.
Nice links in this thread, anyway! 
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviator and author of The Little Prince disappeared mysteriously in 1944.
The wreckage of his plane was discovered in 2004.
Did you by any chance read JG Ballards ‘The Kindness of Women’ his fictionalised Autobiography? He describes a spitfire being found with the remains of the pilot still in the cockpit in a riverbed covered with silt. As far as I can tell it wasn’t based on any real incident.
Not directly related to the OP, but there are several WWII era plane crash sites on Dartmoor in the south west UK, most with large amounts of wreckage still visible (most of the sites are far too remote for casual scavengers). There are at least 2 B-17s and 3 B-24s. I’m slowly working my way round them all. The most spectacular so far has been the crash site of a Royal Navy Sea Vixen that dived in from 28,000 ft in May 1965.
Sites listed here: http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/crash_site.htm