A detonator was found in the lost World War, the Nazis, with a British pilot, was found on the plane after 82 years.
Leslie Norman Row, of Greesind, was flying a mission on the Mediterranean when he was attacked in Baltimore.
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The plane, part of the Australian Apostle (Royal Air Force), crashed from the Greek island of Antikythera, and lost Leslie and two comrades of their lives.
Now, nearly 82 years after uncertainty, divers closed the families of the dead, where he found a 61 -meter bomber under the Aegean Sea.
Harry Green, head of the gravitational branch, and Absvlite in the British Royal Legion, said that the young pilot made the final sacrifice.
He said: “He died in the name of his country, and this in itself says everything.
“He gave up his life, he has gave up futureAnd all his family.
“It took a long time to find the plane, and respect the people who went out and found it.”
Leslie, an explorer, flew his last mission on December 3, 1943, when he and his companions were assigned to photograph the Greek coast.
They were also killed, Colin William Walker of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).
The only survivor was the Australian pilot, William Alero Hugh Horsley, who was handed over to the Germans and spent the rest of the war on the prisoner.
After his release, Horsley described how they returned from their mission when they participated by two Messerschmtt BF 109s.
He later narrated: “Me-109 delivered seven attacks, during which the plane was shot at the port suite.
“Communication systems have been destroyed with pilot officer Walker and the Gartside – to an unknown extent.”
Follow this was the harsh landing at sea.
He wrote: “When I regained consciousness, the plane was flooded in the nose, and the sea was left to my neck.
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“I have released my safety, I stood up, and the plane overwhelms me.
“I swapped over the place where the plane was flooded, but no one else left the plane, which drowned in the deep waters about 300 yards from the northern beach of Antikythera.
“Then I swore to the beach in the sight of the spot until some of the hunters from Antikythera picked it up.”
For 81 years, the plane will remain hidden.
But last year, Aegeantec, a Greek technical diving group, re -discovered it.
Believe that it is the lost plane, Raf Baltimore FW282, they contacted the Australian Air Force and Heritage Branch.
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Now identity Missing The plane was confirmed.
Marshal Air President Richard Knighton, Chief of Air Staff at RafThe discovery said the most prominent long relationship between the three Air Force.
Sir Richard said: “It is an honor to admit the courage of the multinational crew,” Sir Richard said.
This was a generation that embodies the importance of service and the companion.
“Their efforts were the base in which the British Royal Air Force continued to maintain the security of the United Kingdom at home and abroad.
“Their sense of duty inspires future generations of all of our air forces.”
The air Marshal Stephen Chapel, head of the RAAF team, expressed his hope that the discovery will bring the closure.
“The discovery of this plane is important and provides the opportunity to provide closure to families,” he said.
“The efforts of groups such as AEGEANTEC are necessary for us in the account of these 3143 Australian pilots without a well -known grave of World War II and the Korean conflict.
“I am pleased, along with my British Royal Air Force and Rnzaf colleagues, to this week to be able to announce the discovery.
“For us, we collectively recognize the courage of this joint crew of pilots from our three countries.”
Deputy Marshall Darren Web, Rnzaf president, chanted feelings.
He said: “I hope this will bring some feeling of closing to the families.
“The sacrifice of this brave crew has long been remembered, especially by their families, and we can now honor the final resting place with the respect they deserve.”
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A class was born on March 2, 1918, by Albert Edward and Florence Mabel Row.
He lists a souvenir on him on Gravesnd Grammar School as a former student, when she was the boycott school for children.
He says that he appeared in the school production of the Shakespeare trader in Venice, and he was a conservative, and he played in the first team of the game XV in the school.
Leslie left the school in 1937 and joined the British Royal Air Force in 1941.
His father, who served in the commercial navy during the First World War, joined to Royal Navy Reserves during the second, and the father and son were reunited for a short period Egypt.
Just a few months later, the youngest man was killed.
It is now remembered in Alamein Memorial in Egypt.
