{"id":48261,"date":"2022-08-12T00:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48261"},"modified":"2022-09-06T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:22:26","slug":"the-wreckage-of-a-german-ju-88-bomber-discovered-near-leningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/the-wreckage-of-a-german-ju-88-bomber-discovered-near-leningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"The wreckage of a German Ju-88 bomber discovered in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World War II unfolded on so many fronts and left behind so many remnants that are still showing up today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/02\/an-abandoned-uh-1-iroquois-helicopter-on-a-rooftop-in-a-post-apocalyptic-place\/\">An abandoned UH-1 Iroquois helicopter on a rooftop in a post-apocalyptic place<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/17\/inside-the-ruins-of-a-colossal-launch-complex-of-titan-i-nuclear-missiles\/\">Inside the ruins of a colossal launch complex of Titan I nuclear missiles<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Russian war relic hunters have been lucky enough to find, near Saint Petersburg, half-buried <strong>the remains of a German Junkers Ju-88A-4 bomber<\/strong>, a variant with extra wingspan and an improved launch system of bombs. Let us remember that <strong>that place was the scene of one of the largest and most brutal battles of the Second World War<\/strong>, with more than 1.6 million fallen combatants and more than one million dead civilians. A Russian YouTube channel published yesterday the video of the discovery:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Excavations of the German Junkers Ju 88 bomber that fell into the swamp of the Leningrad Front\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZ8ZwDzq8ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots of the video below. Here <strong>one of the crew seats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52279382771_d9429f1b61_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the wings<\/strong>, and on it the crankshaft of one of the engines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52279864965_910488c85f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the two engines<\/strong> Junkers Jumo 211J V12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52278401947_1ec54ce978_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part of the fuselage<\/strong> of the bomber.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52279864950_5f1299908e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don't know the Ju-88, <strong>this was this German bomber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52279382831_92f77bac9a_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War II unfolded on so many fronts and left behind so many remnants that are still showing up today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16877],"tags":[17175,2678,10731,17329,17179,10389],"class_list":["post-48261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-junkers-ju-88","tag-luftwaffe","tag-russia","tag-saint-petersburg","tag-siege-of-leningrad","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}