Daimler Benz Mid 90's?

[shrike]

with the huge amount of Bf109s produced there still has to be a huge number of them sitting at the bottom of lakes scattered all over europe one would think?

No, the RLM et alli ran an extremely efficient salvage and recycling effort to recover crashed aircraft including, or especially, US bombers.
Strangers In A Strange Land, Vol II from Squadron gives an insight into the scope of the efforts. The last 109's were built from the metal of the first 109s, and B-17s and B-24 and....

[DoraNineFan]

with the huge amount of Bf109s produced there still has to be a huge number of them sitting at the bottom of lakes scattered all over europe one would think?

The freshwater lakes across Europe will have the best examples yet to be discovered. But there are a lot of legal and environmental hurdles to overcome before attempting a recovery. This one went back to Germany for static restoration.

[StangStung]

Wow! Where/when is that pic from? What's the current status?

[DoraNineFan]

Wow! Where/when is that pic from? What's the current status?

He-111H-2 recovered from Lake Jonsvatnet, Norway in 2004. Now with the Technical Museum Berlin for static restoration. It sank in 1940 while the lake was a makeshift airfield. I didn't know this until just now, but I'm reading that five aircraft sank.


I believe that another of the five was a Ju-88 that was also recovered for static restoration.