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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => General discussion => Topic started by: Craig Fuller on January 15, 2010, 11:21:38 AM

Title: Wreck of WWII-era dive bomber found off South Maui
Post by: Craig Fuller on January 15, 2010, 11:21:38 AM

Article in the Maui News:
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/527677.html?nav=10

Title: Re: Wreck of WWII-era dive bomber found off South Maui
Post by: Russ Matthews 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

Title: Re: Wreck of WWII-era dive bomber found off South Maui
Post by: Russ Matthews 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