"A victim of WWII is still lost – but not forgotten " Topic

This Daily Telegraph newspaper article on the Curtis Kittyhawk discovered in Egypt got me thinking whether other large WWII aircraft or tanks could be seen using Google Earth.

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Does anyone know whether this is the case – war machines seen from a satelite?

Blues 4

Mighty small to pick up from space, but not necessarily impossible. I would look in lakes my self, or on the Greenland Icecap.

There was a naval trng facility in Lake Michigan--I think--that was used to train future carrier pilots. I have heard that there are some acft that crashed into the lake and were not recovered.

Blues For Baby:
Does anyone know whether this is the case – war machines seen from a satelite?

I can think of at least one:

I think I've spotted some here – just paste into Google maps 50.695504,-2.241502

Timbo W,

Very droll

There is a U-boat sunk just off the beach on Padre Island, Texas that is exposed at low tide. I used to remember the map coordinates by heart because once every 2-3 months, pilots would radio me to report what they thought was a sinking ship. It's on some lady's property (or used to be), but I always wondered if it would be possible to get inside and explore around.

The Prinz Eugen, sitting capsized with part of her sitting on a beach near Kwajalien Island.

There was a C-47 discovered sitting on the tundra in the middle of nowhere-Siberia where it ditched just after the war. I bet if you knew the exact coords, and the area (which had nothing else there) had been photographed at some detail, it would be seen.

Grand Duke, there was a training facility at Great Lakes
NTC for recruits. GLNAS operated a flight line but
I'm not sure what level (primary, multi-engine,
instrument, etc.)

But many of the GL crashed aircraft probably came from
the decks of Sable and Wolverine, the paddle-wheel Lake
steamers converted to 'carriers' for touch-and-go
training by rookie Naval aviators.

In addition, there used to be a lot of old aircraft
wrecks and abandoned aircraft on various Pacific
islands. This was back in 1959-64. I'm sure most of
'em are gone now (for scrap metal).

PBY5A Catalina on a beach in the Gulf of Tiran, courtesy of Google Maps.

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inverugie, how do you figure out how to get an actual Google maps URL to get the right location and magnification? Is there some guide/link on Google Maps that explains how?

That's a great picture, and there are some close ups around it if you use street view.
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Tim

Ditto, others far more talented or knowledgable than I am I'm afraid. Given how well known and documented the that wreck is, it was simply a matter of getting the lat/long off one of the sites and tapping it into Google Maps. Since recovered and now being restored in the States was a B17E in New Guinea (nicknamed 'Swamp Ghost') which was a Google Map image in 2007. Scroll down to the 7th post: link

Check out a site called Artificial Owl!