Key takeaways
Unexpected Discovery: A berry-picker in Swinoujscie, Poland found debris including aluminum fragments and burnt ammunition while foraging in a forest.
Historical Clues: Experts identified .303 British ammunition, a T7 copper tube, and Avimo-type fittings, linking the wreckage to British WWII aircraft like the Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricane, or Supermarine Spitfire.
Possible Connection: The site may relate to a Lancaster wing found in 2009 nearby, suggesting the forest could hold the main part of the aircraft, with investigations ongoing to confirm its identity and check for potential crew remains.
A berry-picker in Poland may have stumbled upon the wreckage of a World War II aircraft.
A resident of Swinoujscie, a port city in the northwest part of the country on the border with Germany, was hiking through the forest in search of fruit when he stumbled upon a mysterious pit in an area of heavily disturbed ground. Nearby, he found various pieces of debris, including pieces of an aluminum structure and the remains of burnt ammunition.
The man brought one of the loose fragments to the team at the Museum of Coastal Defence – Fort Gerhard inside a well-preserved 19th-century Prussian coastal fort. Staffers quickly realized the fragment was “not random scrap metal,” Wiktor Czeszewski, a museum official, tells Euronews’ Tomasz Lezon.