"FM-2 Wildcat Recovered from Lake Michigan" Topic
6 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the WWII Aviation Discussion Message Board Back to the WWII Media Message Board
|
 svsavory  | 08 Dec 2012 10:22 a.m. PST |
|
David Miniature Armies  | 08 Dec 2012 2:11 p.m. PST |
Very cool and my favorite fighter of WW2 |
| Sundance | 08 Dec 2012 5:56 p.m. PST |
Isn't the first WWII-era plane fished out of Lake Michigan and probably won't be the last. The Navy practiced carrier landings on Lake Michigan using a converted merchant as a carrier (may have been more than one – can't recall right off now). It was sunk in the Lake after it outlived its usefulness and is a dive attraction now. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 08 Dec 2012 7:04 p.m. PST |
Sundance, you're thinking of USS Sable and USS Wolverine
the two paddlewheel Lake steamers the Navy used
for touch and goes during WWII. There are probably a lot of USN aircraft on the lake
bottom. |
| VonBlucher | 08 Dec 2012 7:10 p.m. PST |
This was the plane they found a year or 2 ago. It was intact so they mentioned at that time they were going to recover it. Sundance,
I heard that there was more than one. My eldest brother was stationed at Glenview when he was in the Naval Air as a flight mechanic and served out the Vietmanese conflict 7 miles from our family home. Yes they are quite a few planes at the bottom, but they will only bring them up if they're intact and an orginization is willing to pay for it. |
 Chuckaroobob | 09 Dec 2012 11:12 p.m. PST |
Really cool! I've heard the cold water up there makes corrosion very slow. Definitely one of the more rare warbirds! |
|
