In 2017 Russian Navy divers pulled an American-built P-39 Airacobra out of an Arctic lake 72 years after it crashed on a 1945 training flight — and where they expected to find the pilot’s remains, all that was left was part of his fur-lined boot

In 2017 Russian Navy divers pulled an American-built P-39 Airacobra out of an Arctic lake 72 years after it crashed on a 1945 training flight — and where they expected to find the pilot’s remains, all that was left was part of his fur-lined boot

Summary and Key Points: More than 70 years after it sank, an American-built P-39 Airacobra was raised from an Arctic lake near Murmansk — one of several Lend-Lease fighters and Sherman tanks recovered from Russian waters decades after the war, some still holding their pilots’ remains and legible logbooks. The P-39 Fighter Mystery  Back in 2017, a Russian World War II fighter, a P-39 Airacobra, was pulled out of an arctic lake, more than 70 years…