The eastern front in World War II differed from the western front in a number of ways. Mind-numbing casualties in the eastern theater come to mind--as do encirclement battles as characteristics of how the war was fought there. On April 30, 1942 Soviet pilot Lieutenant Michail Gavrilov flew into the
Demyansk Pocket--where the Germans were surrounded--and was never seen again.
But 68 years later his plane and remains were discovered deep in the mud of a bog south of St. Petersburg.
Click here to visit English Russia for a superb photo essay of what was uncovered.
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