World War II RAF fighter plane remains discovered in the Sahara

The remains of a single-seater RAF Kittyhawk P-40 aircraft have been found by a Polish oil company worker exploring a remote region of the western desert in Egypt. The aircraft was found almost perfectly preserved, unseen and untouched, after it came down in 1942.

Remains of RAF Kitty Hawk P-40 found in Sahara 70 years after the crash

Second World War Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping took what little he could from the RAF Kittyhawk he had just crash-landed, then wandered into the emptiness of the desert.

From that day in June 1942 the mystery of what happened to  the dentist’s son from Southend was lost, in every sense, in the sands of time.

Read more / see more photographs: Mail Online

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Wreck of British submarine sunk in WW-II Found

[ via The Guardian ] 11 Jan

Explorers have discovered the wreck of a British submarine that sank off the coast of Malta in one of the worst naval disasters of the second world war.

Nearly 90 men lost their lives when HMS Olympus struck a mine and sank as it tried to evade German and Italian warships blockading Grand Harbour in the early hours of 8 May 1942.

A team of divers from a Florida-based exploration trust found the wreck while surveying the ocean floor off Malta last year. They announced their findings to the British government and the Royal Navy this week

Read more: The Guardian
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