The builders of the Crimean bridge helped raise from the bottom of the Kerch Strait a single-engine American fighter of the times of the Great Patriotic War P-40 known as "Kittyhok". This is reported on the website of the organization. "We immediately supported the search engines who asked for help," the captain of the floating craft Igor Demyanenko told the agency. It is specified that the aircraft was discovered earlier in the perimeter of the construction site six kilometers from the Tamani coast. Specialists from a depth of nine meters raised the fuselage with wings and a tail of more than 3.5 tons. It is noted that the marking on the engine has been preserved, on which it will be possible to identify the pilot in the future. According to the head of the search expedition Alexander Yolkin, the plane could be damaged by anti-aircraft guns.

But it is possible that the pilot managed to land the car on the water and, perhaps, he survived. After the restoration, the plane is planned to be installed on one of the historical sites of the Kerch Peninsula dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. Until then, the fighter will be in the Kerch Fortress. May 5 in Sevastopol in the "Memory Watch" reburied the remains of 88 Red Army men and Red Fleet.

Original article: From the bottom of the Kerch Strait American fighter of the Great Patriotic War.