A A-20 Boston wreck found?

[Juha Tompuri]

During Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline works at Baltic Sea a WWII era bomber wreck has announced to have been discovered.
Photo from Finnish TV, a Soviet A-20 Boston?

[Juha Tompuri]

The wreck lies at ca. 100m depth, but the company does not give the exact location.
However, it is mentioned that they co-operate with the (Finnish AFAIK) National Board of Antiquities, so it might lay at Finnish economic zone?.





https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017/05/ ... avsbottnen

[Juha Tompuri]

Nord Stream 2 AG photos:




http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9604845

[Juha Tompuri]

A A-20G Boston?
1st GMTAP / 51st MTAP of Baltic Sea AF?
http://www.bellabs.ru/51/index.html
http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Morozov/Losses.html ?

[Art]

What is the location exactly?

[Juha Tompuri]

Don't know, Nord Stream does not give the exact location.
But, as the Finnish National Board of Antiquities is involved, AFAIK, it should then be perhaps at Finnish Gulf?
The wreck has been found in 2016 and it's ca. 1km from the planned pipeline.

[igorr]

It can be also recoinessance Boston from 15 ORAKP.

[Juha Tompuri]

Did 15 ORAKP have the G-model (if the wreck is a G)?
How about night fighter/attack (blokirovshshikie?) plane?

[igorr]

Yes, 15 ORAKP has A-20G. AFAIK VVS KBF has no attack/nightfighter versions of A-20.

[Juha Tompuri]

OK.
How about ADD?

[igorr]

I think ADD not fly over Finnish Gulf.

[Juha Tompuri]

February 1944 there were three attacks against Helsinki and atacks against Kotka, Turku, Mariehamn (and straying to bomb Stockholm) There they flew over the Gulf.
Also possibly over the sea also against Kokkola and Pietarsaari.
http://www.histdoc.net/lauttasaari/airraid.html
http://www.sshs.fi/binary/file/-/id/3/fid/705/
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=201245

March same year against Tallinn and Narva
http://www.estonica.org/en/Bombing_of_T ... arch_1944/

[igorr]

Sorry, i haven't knowledge about ADD. Think most planes there was Il-4 and B-25, not A-20

[Juha Tompuri]

I don't know if ADD had the A-20's integrally, but IIRC at least Soviet reports mention them being used during the attacks to suppress Finnish AAA with guns and rockets.

[Juha Tompuri]

The wreck lies at ca. 100m depth, but the company does not give the exact location.
However, it is mentioned that they co-operate with the (Finnish AFAIK) National Board of Antiquities, so it might lay at Finnish economic zone?.

The wreck location is mentioned as Western part of Finnish Gulf, international waters, at Finnish economic zone.
Finnish aviation museum is not interested in raising it.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9607944