Almost intact: diver manages to photograph WWII plane at the bottom of the sea

A Diver managed to photograph a fighter plane sunk to the bottom of the ocean. It’s a plane B-17 Flying Fortress Who stole during the Second World War and now stay in the Adriatic Sea after being knocked down 50 kilometers from the coast of Croatia.

Martin Strmiska, a 40 year old man Vietnam, Slovakia, was in charge of representing the ship in the depths. Knowing his exact location, the photographer embarked on an operation to register the remains at 70 years of his fall.

As it happened, the Boeing plane was in a bombing mission in Vienna when his last trip on November 6, 1944. After suffering extensive enemy damage, it crashed in the Adriatic Sea, 50 km off the Croatian coast, near the town of Rukavac.

In the pictures you can see how the original structure it remains intact, but with some mollusks produced from the passage of the years on the seabed. Thinks that the nose of the plane it is broken by the impact during the fall, where the landing gear was hit the most. In the ship’s cockpit, the photographer and his team found a loose boot.

The plane Boeing B-17 It was built in the 1930s for the United States Air Force Corps. It is said that it was equipped with machine guns on the tail. Meanwhile, experts say a plane of this magnitude could carry loads of pumps up to 3600 kg in short-range missions, which is why it stands out with its defensive capabilities.

In contrast, the pilot is believed to have landed at sea so the crew could escape in life rafts. The co-pilot, the second lieutenant of the United States Air Force, Ernest Vinneau, he died in the accident because he could not be rescued before the plane sank.

The remains of this B-17 are among the best preserved of the ships that fell during WWII.

THE NATION