DB-3 bomber, recovered in Karelia 2006 year

**nimble1** · 11-16-2008, 05:31 PM

Quie a lot of work to recover these items. Very impressive!

**ColinD** · 12-15-2008, 10:54 PM

Respect to those that served and died, and also to those that risked their lives and worked so hard to recover them.
Great photos, thanks for showing them.
C

Ronnie Fry · 12-19-2008, 11:37 PM

The site on Campbell's Bluebird recovery is most excellent.....

Great thread

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William · 02-01-2009, 08:22 PM

I am still amazed at how well-preserved everything that comes from swamps is. Did you recover much of the airframe?

LTC Scheidler · 02-28-2009, 01:32 PM

An excellent set of pictures!

**ҒλĿĉōח** · 04-10-2009, 05:28 PM

I think it's a great found, but poor people!

**Dimas** · 04-10-2009, 05:42 PM

Poor if they will not burried bodies, but they make a proper reburrial, all this work only for reburrial the MIA soldiers...

**Jan** · 07-02-2009, 07:36 PM

by boxmike

Maybe this:

Date is certainly the Winter War,
time is changed to 12 hours by me:

21.Dec 1939 2.30pm Kämärä Luutn(ltnt) Jaakko Vuorela FR-87 DB-3
21.Dec 1939 2.30pm Kämärä Vänr(ensign) Joel Savonen FR-93 DB-3

Not sure about Vänrikki, any Finns correct me?
FR-number meant it was the Finnish primary fighter in Winter War Fokker D-XXI, or D-21, Fokker D.XXI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The place sounds like it was 'Säiniö' near Viipuri ('Kämärä's there as well)
Just having a guess in a case she was shot down by another aircraft.

Regards,

- box

Yes its vänrikki, so happy those bombs didnt kill my grandfather

Rgds. Jan