The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.
Nearly 80 years since they last flew, eight British Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft from World War II have been uncovered in a forest near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
The wrecks were located earlier this year after an unexploded wartime bomb was found and defused in a ravine nearby. The ravine was then checked with metal detectors, which revealed the underground remains, according to BBC News. The single-seat aircraft were used in every theater of the war and on warships as Sea Hurricanes, which were often launched from catapults.
Image 1 of 2According to BBC News, the buried aircraft were among 3,000 Hurricanes sent to the Soviet Union after 1941; the U.S. purchased them from the U.K. under the Lend-Lease program, in which the U.S. funded the Allied war effort from 1941 to 1945.
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