Page Field (as well as Buckingham Air Base) in Fort Myers Trained thousands of WW2 Airmen and a lot of planes were lost.
The local
Historical Museum has what's left of a P39 Aircobra that 'landed' (Pilot survived) in Estero Bay,
ending up against Mangroves at the edge
and I'm sure that I could have Snook Casted right on it and never even recognised it as Airplane Remains.
Sometimes the discovery of a lost aircraft can be worth more than just "...the eventual interpretation of the plane. ..."They thought they
had found Batista's Gold, but instead discovered not only
'closure' for a family, but were able to establish that the
Army Air Corps inital finding of "Pilot Error" was
probably wrong and the true cause had been Mechanical Failure of the B26 Marauder
{"one-a-day in Tampa Bay"} Aircraft.