U.S. Navy finds no sign in Baltic Sea of plane downed during WWII with American on board

: U.S. naval experts failed to happen any mark of the wreckage of a airplane shot down over the Baltic during World War two with an American on board, a senior surveyor said Wednesday.

Naval functionaries on Wednesday called off the hunt for the Kaleva, which Finnish and Estonian experts state Soviet fighter-bombers shot down just years before annexing Estonia.

Among the nine people on board was Henry Antheil, a messenger for the American embassy in Helsinki, whose decease is considered the first U.S. casualty of World War II. He had rushed to Capital Of Esthonia to evacuate sensitive written documents from the American Legation with the Soviet Union moving into inhabit Estonia, Republic Of Latvia and Lithuania.

The Kaleva crashed into the Baltic Sea on June 14, 1940, proceedings after taking off from Tallinn, the Estonian capital.

Experts here state two Soviet fighter-bombers shot down the Helsinki-bound Kaleva, a German-made Junkers Ju-52 operated by a Finnish airliner. Neither the Soviet Union nor Soviet Union have got acknowledged shot down the plane. Some believe the Soviet military recovered the Kaleva's wreckage in the old age after its disappearance. Today in Europe

Estonian Defense Curate Jaak Aaviksoo asked the U.S. for aid in determining what happened to the Kaleva, believed to be lying 300 feet (90 meters) underwater.

For six days, three Navy submerged trade searched the Waters around the bantam island of Keri, some 20 statute miles (30 kilometers) nor'-east of Tallinn, but establish mark of the plane, said St Martin Ammond, senior surveyor aboard the USNS Pathfinder.

"There is no indicant of a big human-made physical object in this area," Ammond said. "I have got a high degree of assurance that the airplane is not there."