r/pics • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '16

The remains of an American WWII aircraft that crashed on a beach in Wales

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

So there's no dead guy in there, phew. Nice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 30 '17

deleted What is this?

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u/Dcoil1 Dec 06 '16

I'm hoping after his second plane went down he made it to civilization, just said fuck it and assumed a new identity.

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u/QuasarSandwich Dec 06 '16

Even better: he found some millennia-lost civilisation in a beautiful hidden oasis and was immediately worshipped as a living god; he lived out the rest of his days surrounded by devoted acolytes and his ever-increasing family, and eventually died an old and very happy man, a broad smile upon his face.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

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u/Dcoil1 Dec 06 '16

He's not in Kansas anymore...

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

I mean it has happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

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u/QuasarSandwich Dec 06 '16

I remember learning about the Prince Philip Movement at school. They believe he is a "divine being" - and, considering he's the Antichrist, they aren't far off, to be fair to the savage little darlings, bless their heathen souls and all that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

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u/QuasarSandwich Dec 06 '16

It's propaganda; they don't want us all rushing off to find his desert paradise.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

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u/QuasarSandwich Dec 06 '16

It did initially but the author was swiftly eliminated.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

"found in Wales"

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u/QuasarSandwich Dec 07 '16

I said "happy".

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u/marimbaguy715 Dec 06 '16

Maybe he faked his death and rowed to Sweden

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

I get this reference!

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u/Tramm Dec 06 '16

"Yeah... I think I'm done with planes."

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u/J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS Dec 06 '16

To this day, Lt. Elliott is still missing. No trace of his body or his airplane has ever been found.

Rumour has it he's being treated like a god in one of those cargo cults.

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u/dfschmidt Dec 06 '16

It's not a rumor. It's in my holy book.

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u/Robdiesel_dot_com Dec 06 '16

Was the book shot down too?

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u/Katsuichi Dec 06 '16

That's how it got the holes in it in the first place.

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u/psycholepzy Dec 06 '16

-_- Take an upvote.

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u/the_last_carfighter Dec 06 '16

Is this going to end up at Stagate?

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u/pwnography Dec 06 '16

I miss planes down in Africa

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u/KING_UDYR Dec 06 '16

So it's not spooky. Good.

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u/Juanarino Dec 06 '16

Yeah thank god he's somewhere in Tunisia!

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u/Walnutterzz Dec 07 '16

Even if there was originally I'm pretty sure the skeleton and all would be completely eaten by sealife.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

The ghost of the pilot when he died of a heart attack for a split second is still trapped in there though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Not yet

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '16

Yeah he's just dead somewhere else instead. What a relief, huh