Dauntless Dive-Bomber Found in Lake Michigan to be

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Dauntless Dive-Bomber Found in Lake Michigan to be Restored at Portage Air Zoo



https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/pla...r-zoo.html


A dive bomber that had ditched in Lake Michigan on a training run in 1944 has been brought to land for restoration after 65 under water.


The Douglas SBD Dauntless lifted from the water Friday to a pier in Waukegan, 60 kilometers north of Chicago, is among 130 to 300 or more planes estimated to have sunk in the lake during training late in World War II.


"Corsairs, Avengers, Dauntless — any number of World War II aircraft are in the water," said Capt. Ed Ellis, secretary of the foundation that supports the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, where the newly recovered plane will be restored.

Ellis puts the total aircraft sunk in Lake Michigan at more than 300. Taras Lyssenko, co-owner of A&T Recovery, created to recover those planes, thinks the number is closer to 130. Whatever the figure, they are spread over some 2,500 square miles of lake bottom.

The Dauntless is the 35th airplane plucked from the waters since the National Naval Aviation Museum began a recovery and restoration program in 1990, Ellis said.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11735...higan.html

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