British WW2 Hurricane planes discovered buried outside Kyiv
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Jul 5, 2023
Ukraine unveils a rare and remarkable find—eight British Hurricane fighter planes from the era of the Second World War. Resting quietly in a forest south of Kyiv, the aircraft were unearthed by metal detectorists near an unexploded bomb from the same era. These treasures of aviation history traveled all the way from Britain to the Soviet Union, sent as reinforcements when Germany invaded in 1941.