Totally OT - Sunk War Birds (WW2)

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:40 am

Just a heads-up for some of the guys here who like this kind of stuff. Everything from Corsairs to Zeros, there is an estimated 150 American airplanes in the graveyard off Roioff (near Kwajalein or there abouts). Fantastic underwater photos...

http://www.largescaleplanes.com/article ... ving2.html

You'll find stuff like:

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:40 am

Thank you for that site!
Bob

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:07 am

Very cool. I love that kind of stuff.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:11 am

Tom -

I swear you find the coolest stuff on the net!!!

Thanks for sharing this!!!

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:51 am

That would be some really cool diving!!

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:00 am

Thanks for the link.

I've sent it on to a friend of mine. WWII warbirds are on of my favorite subjects.

Joe

don Tomás · Post by **don Tomás** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:21 am

J Miller wrote:Thanks for the link.

I've sent it on to a friend of mine. WWII warbirds are on of my favorite subjects.

Joe

You're all very welcome. Joe, I haven't forgot about you. Soon as the snow starts to fly and I'm house bound, one of my chores will be to rip that Doolittle Fly-in video for you.
Tom

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:08 pm

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.