Saw that the Fieseler Storch at the Shuttleworth Aircraft Collection was outiside its hanger, so took this quick photo today on my phone while on a bike ride. This is a fully restored and flying Storch that is at the collection near where I grew up. Worth a visit if your in Bedfordshire, UK.
“Russia on Monday accused the European Court of Human Rights of going along with people who seek to rehabilitate Nazis by upholding Latvia’s appeal in the case of a Soviet World War II veteran.
Vasily Kononov, 87, who led a group of resistance fighters against Nazi Germany in the Baltic state during World War II, was jailed by Latvia in 1998 after he was convicted of ordering the killing of nine villagers in 1944. He admitted to the killings, but said the dead were Nazi collaborators who were caught in crossfire.
Earlier on Monday, the upper chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the appeal by Latvia against the court’s 2008 ruling that the conviction of Kononov was illegal.”
source – RIA Novosti
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The “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future) Foundation told the Sunday edition of Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper that the money remaining at the foundation’s disposal had been earmarked for other purposes.
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A piece of an American B-24 bomber that flew its last mission nearly 65 years ago has resurfaced in Hungary.One of the plane’s engines was dug out of the ground and cleaned of earth Saturday by Hungarian soldiers and members of the Hungarian Wreck Research Association, according to the Associated Press. The relic was located in Szigetszentmiklos, just south of Budapest.The bomber, also know as Liberator, was shot down by the Hungarian air defense while it bombed the Duna Airplane Factory on April 13, 1944, the Associated Press reports.
It wasn’t immediately clear what Hungarian authorities intended to do with the salvaged engine.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) – A British Blackburn Skua dive-bomber that crashed-landed on a Norwegian fjord while attacking Nazi invasion forces in April 1940 has been recovered after 68 years under water, the project leader said Wednesday.
Klas Gjoelmesli, leader of the volunteer project, said he believes the plane will be the only complete example of the dive-bomber in the world after restoration, which will take several years, is completed.
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