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Craig Fuller

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Russ Matthews

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Re: Wreck of WWII-era dive bomber found off South Maui
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2010, 07:45:55 PM »

Thanks, Craig.  I was going to post this news, but you beat me to it!  They should ask this guy to present his find with us at the MAHHI symposium next month...

http://www.mahhi.org/Accepted_Abstracts.html
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Re: Wreck of WWII-era dive bomber found off South Maui
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2010, 05:20:56 PM »

I local diver has posted images of the wreck, making it clear that the initial identification of the "Maui bomber" was incorrect -- it is most likely an early model Curtiss SB2C "Helldiver" (rather than a Douglas SBD "Dauntless").

http://www.scubapost.net/scubablogs/scubasean/tags/sbd5-dauntless-dougless
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