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Tom Metcalfe

Metal detectorists find buried WWII aircraft in Ukraine while disarming wartime bomb

We see a man in a hat in a dirt hole and holding onto part of a rusty, decayed plane.

Nearly 80 years since they last flew, eight British Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft from World War II have been uncovered in a forest near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

The aircraft, now rusted and in fragments, were buried there after the war's end, likely by the Soviet Union in an attempt to avoid paying the United States for them under the Lend-Lease program. 

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