The Lost Bomber of World War II | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

So now, no question, we have a plane and
no question, we have a British plane. I’ve
traveled 500 m above the Arctic Circle
to find wreckage of the legendary
British bomber, the Barracuda. A
restoration team in England needs
original parts to bring one back to life.
Remarkably, Against All Odds, we may have
some.

And this is the rudder over here.
The rudder? Yeah, it would have fitted in
into this slot. Yes, it would have. Yeah,
this is part of the tail of the plane.
Yes, these are the right colors in the
right location. Let’s see if this looks
like the Barracuda tail.

I bring the iPad out to see if I
can place the part we found on our
missing plane. So here’s our Barracuda,
and here’s our tail.

Look at that! Yeah,
I mean, is that a beauty or what? That’s a
match. That’s a perfect match. That’s a
perfect match. Hey! Yeah, that is unbelievable.

But here’s what bothers me:
Where is this? Where is this whole
horizontal section of the tail? It’s the
one very weird design element on this
plane, and it’s like the fingerprint of
the Barracuda. Yeah, where’s that? It’s not
here at all.

The high elevators on the
tail are a signature of the Barracuda
design and a part of the plane that the
team back in England is specifically
hoping to acquire. If we can find that, we
can close the case. Yep, let’s find it.
Let’s find it. Come on, we’re one piece away
from solving an 80-year-old jigsaw puzzle.

So we hit the
debris field one more time with new
urgency as the sun begins to set and a
deadly cold creeps in.

Hey Josh, come over
here. See something?

Yeah, I think this is
the part of the elevator. Is this that
high piece of the tail?

Yeah, I think it
is. I mean, if it is, then this is a
Barracuda. Yeah, I’m quite sure. Yeah, then
these are the parts that they’re looking
for. These are the parts that could
complete this lost aircraft.

Back at the
museum, that’s unbelievable. I’m speechless.
I am utterly speechless. The elevator pairs
perfectly with the tail piece that we found
earlier. Together, we may have found a
complete Barracuda tail section for the
very first time. This is a piece of World
War II history right here, right here.

But the idea that we are standing in front
of the wreckage of one of these lost
planes is so humbling. I am in this
moment. This plane crashed saving the
world from an unimaginable evil, and now
it is lost no more.

We look at the
violence of this crash. Most likely, people
died in this accident. So we are also on a kind of
hallowed ground here. Yeah, this is a war
grave. It is a war
grave.

But I think this is exactly what
we came for.

Yeah. Hey F, thank you for
coming up here with me.

My pleasure. This
was awesome.

It was amazing.

Yeah, here far above the Arctic Circle, a
plane that helped turn the tide of World
War II has been rediscovered, and in time,
may serve its nation once again in the
rebuild of the Barracuda.

We perform a 3D
scan of every inch of the plane, then in
the frigid darkness, we undertake the
long and treacherous hike downhill with
our data clutched tightly in hand, excited
to share it with the team back in
England.