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Old Bird From The Abyss

By Boquisucio on December 2, 2009 | | Comments (4)
An old War Bird has just come out of the dark abyss.  Lake Michigan had her for sixty-five years, but like Aphrodite, out from the waters, she hath risen.

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By AFSister on December 2, 2009 6:22 PM
That's damn cool.
Check out all of those zebra mussells attached to the instrument panel though!
 
By Neffi on December 2, 2009 9:08 PM
During the war an older carrier was stationed north of Chicago specifically for Navy guys to practice carrier landings... the bed of Lake Michigan in this area is littered with the wrecks of every type of 'plane they flew off Flattops- victims of rookie pilots, for the most part. A treasure trove of warbirds...
 
By BillT on December 3, 2009 1:26 AM
If there was a body of water anywhere near a training field during WWII, there was an airplane at the bottom of it.

There's still a P-47 somewhere at the bottom of Millville Lake.

 
By Ian Argent on December 3, 2009 7:32 AM
The captions on the photos are at best misleading and at worst actively wrong - see below for a howler:

"The Navy used Hellcats between 1943 and 1946 before phasing them out after the peak of the war". That phrase at best is poorly worded, at wost implies the peak of the war was 1946. If I had to describe an event as the peak of the Pacific war, I would have used Midway, and the use was phased *in* during 1943 (which can at least be plausibly argued as the peak of the war).

But I'm just a guy whose read a few books in my pyjamas