What an interesting site. I knew that there are hundreds of WWII sitting in watery graves, but didn't realize that so many were in such shallows.
On that note, this months Smithsonian has an article on a B-17E that had crash landed in a New Guinea swamp back in 1942. The crew walked away from what was a nearly undamaged aircraft, leaving it to sit in the swamp for another 64 years.
A journalist, searching for information regarding his father's wartime death heard about this plane from an acquaintance and decided to go the Papua New Guinea and see it for himself. The PNG peninsula is the home to many undiscovered warbirds, and this one was complete, to it's armament.
Last year a salvage group from the US decided to claim the "Swamp Ghost", as the locals called it, and brought in equipment to dismantle the aircraft. It was flown out piece by piece to the harbor and crated for shipment back.
As luck would have it, NG officials stopped the shipment, claiming that noe exit permits were issued and that the ship belonged to them. It sits, crated, on a Lae dock while the legal battle over it continues.
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"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged"....President Abraham Lincoln