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 Lieutenant) September 12, 2017

Heinkel He 115 b/c, 8L+FH 1./906 from the Luftwaffe Küstenfliegergruppe 906 Luftflotte, werk nr: 2398, had a hard landing on december 28th 1942 in Hafrsfjord, Stavanger, Norway. It lost one of the floats, capsized and eventually sunk. The Germans managed to save the floats and one of the engines...read more

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This video is a short summary of the discovery, the diving and the salvage of the German fighter Messerschmitt Bf109 G-2/R6 “Yellow 3” that made an emergency landing on the sea close to Nærøy on the 24th of March 1943. It was recovered 2010 from a depth of 67 meter. The recovery was performed by...read more

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 HQ Batallón) February 26, 2017

WWII B-25 Mitchell Bomber was raised in 2005 from the bottom of Lake Murray near Columbia, South Carolina, one of the Doolittle Raiders training sites in 1942. During a training flight, it crashed. This aircraft never flew it the raid. Although it looks pretty broken up it is restorable. With...read more

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 Lieutenant) December 08, 2016

Thanks to Dustin Adamson from OceanShutter.com, all of us can enjoy with these awesome images of the famous "Betty Bomber" wreck dive in Truk Lagoon. It is one of the must see dive sites when visiting Chuuk. Having been...read more

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The Royal Australian Air Force has confirmed that aircraft wreckage found in waters south of Cairns in far north Queensland was plane that fought in World War Two. She is of RAAF Number 11 Squadron Catalina A24-25 that crashed on 28 February 1943, killing all 11...read more

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In July 2012, NOAA marine debris divers from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (PIFSC-CRED) discovered a sunken aircraft in the lagoon within Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 25, 2016

On September 14, 1944, during WWII a PB2Y-3 Coronado’ nicknamed 'Gunga Din' was practicing landings at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands in the Pacific near the seaplane base at Ebeye Island, when the plane crashed and broke in half directly behind the wing. 

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By April 1945, the German front in the west had disintegrated and in the east the Red Army had encircled Berlin. Despite its belated use of advanced turbojet and rocket propelled aircraft for the destruction of Allied bombers fleets, the Luftwaffe was...read more

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 HQ Batallón) July 08, 2016
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July 1948, a B-29 Superfortress zips over the remote waters of Lake Mead. It’s a secret test mission for a missile guidance system. Except there's a problem: the pilots misjudge the altitude. The massive bomber plunges into the lake. The crew survives, but the plane is lost.

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The Lancaster Mk III heavy bomber ED450 (EA-G) crashed on the breakwater in Plymouth Sound on 13th February 1943. ED 450 was from 49 Squadron based at Fiskerton in Lincolnshire and had just returned from a raid on the U-boat pens at Lorient in France. All the crew were killed. the remains of the...read more

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