zorro7 wrote:
Wildchild:
Good day!
Where do the story comes fm may I ask?? So it flew over the Keys & then followed the W coast of Florida N to Tampa?? Price on AU nowadays is some $1200 oz!
http://www.news-press.com/article/20080 ... 6-wreckageQuote:
Dreams of Cuban gold
For almost 50 years, the aircraft lay undisturbed on the sea floor.
Then, in 1990, charter guide Capt. Tim Wicburg stumbled onto the area.
“I was driving the boat and saw a big mark of fish: I fished there all summer,” he said. “One day, I caught a piece of a plane. Then I started diving it and found the plane.”
What Wicburg found were the top-turret twin .50-caliber machine guns, the aircraft’s two engines and the wing of a B-26 — the fuselage was missing.
But when he saw the wreckage, Wicburg wasn’t thinking World War II — he’d heard stories about a more recent B-26 crash in the Gulf.
Before fleeing Cuba on Jan. 1, 1959, the stories go, Cuban dictator Fulgencia Batista raided the national treasury and loaded the loot onto four B-26s; the planes took off for Tampa while Batista fled to the Dominican Republic.
Only three of the B-26s reached Tampa; the fourth crashed into the Gulf.
“Supposedly the plane that was lost had $3 billion on it, supposedly in gold,” Wicburg said. “Naturally, I wanted to find out if this was the Batista plane. I was hoping. I could have used $3 billion. That’ll keep a man digging.”
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