Fascinating.

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A Danish teenager recently discovered the wreckage of a German World War II fighter plane with the pilot's remains in the cockpit buried near his family's farm in northern Denmark. Fourteen-year-old Daniel Rom Kristiansen made the stunning discovery while doing research for a school project. Now, the results of his research are being analyzed at a museum in Northern Jutland.

Daniel's father, Klaus, told CNN that when he and his son went to the field with a metal detector they weren't expecting to find much.

"I hoped we might find some old plates or something for Daniel to show in school," Klaus said. His grandfather used to tell stories about a German plane crashing near the farm, but he wasn't sure if they were true.

When they thought they had hit something big, they borrowed an excavator from a neighbor and started digging.

"At first we were digging up a lot of dirt with metal fragments in it. Then we suddenly came across bones and pieces of clothes," Kristiansen said. "It was like opening a book from yesterday."

Via the Daily Mail:

The father and son found an engine from the ME 109 Messerschmitt plane, Luftwaffe munitions, and the remains of the aircraft's pilot.

"In the first moment it was not a plane," Mr Kristiansen told the BBC. "It was maybe 2,000 - 5,000 pieces of a plane. And we found a motor... then suddenly we found parts of bones, and parts from [the pilot's] clothes."

The Historical Museum of Northern Jutland now has the pilot's possessions and the remains of the plane.

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"And then we found some personal things - books, a wallet with money... Either it was a little Bible or it was Mein Kampf - a book in his pocket. We didn't touch it, we just put it in some bags. A museum is now taking care of it. I think there's a lot of information in those papers."

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/03/13...on-family-farm/