Any British AH fans near Sussex?If so, the Wings Museum has a very interesting an pertinent display - "Ghosts of the Tundra".
An excerpt from their website (
http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/index.htm) includes:
"...The only place in Europe where visitors can see aircraft which have been recovered from the Russian front where they were shot down over 60 years ago. These rare warbirds are displayed in crash dioramas to represent the actual crash sites! Read about the last battles of World War Two fought between the Russians and the Japanese. These "forgotten" battles were still raging even after the formal signing of the surrender was made aboard the battleship USS Missouri on September 2 1945..."
Another:
"Bell P-63 Kingcobra - Soviet Air Force
Friend & Foe now face one another head one in the Ghosts of the Tundra Hall, see a representation of the abandoned airfield where
6 Bell P-63 Kingcobras were recovered. Hear the sounds of wartime Russian folk music playing in the distance while a P-63 Kingcobra starts and warms up
prior to another flight over the Kurile Islands in 1945."
Link to the "Ghosts of the Tundra" display page:
http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/ghots_of_the_tundra.htmI think a lot of us P-63 fans would be very interested to know about "the last battles of World War Two fought between the Russians and the Japanese" re the P-63.
