So it seems that Wendy Coble is the person who........

[DIK SHEPHERD]

This must be an advertisement for the stupidity of the NHC.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I'm a little upset to put a lot down at the moment. Did you ever see the movie "Clueless"?
Thank God for the Navy! They saved the SB2U, Buffalo, Tomahawk and the TBD! Opps, I forgot. They are "preserving" the TBD in situ for future generations. The children of tomorrow will be able to see the actual location where a TBD dissolved into a mound on the ocean floor!

Thank God there are only 3 people doing what she does in the entire United States! We'd be in real trouble if there were more!!!
Jerry

[TimAPNY]

I find this interesting,

"To recover, restore and maintain an aircraft, and 20 years from now a child looks at it and says, “Wow, that is so cool,” or “I want to go into the Navy;” that’s something that will make an impact on the nation and the Navy."

That is an idea that needs to be revisited and soon!

What is the deal with the PBJ bomber? She is not referring the B-25C that was brought up?

Tim

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[RickH]

I think its amazing that she has morphed an Army Air Corp B-25C into a Navy PBJ ! That's quite a stretch just to make a Navy connection. Of course without it she would have NO business sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.

[groundpounder]

hmmmmmmmmmm!!! not afraid to blow her own horn, now is she?

[Chris Brame]

I became a consultant for family members looking for lost servicemen, taking on two high-profile projects, searching for a PBJ bomber crew in Badin Lake, N.C.

I thought everyone survived that B-25 ditching. Another plane, maybe?

I would like to see this branch of the profession become more accepted; it’s hard to convince other archaeologists you need to preserve aircraft wrecks.

To recover, restore and maintain an aircraft, and 20 years from now a child looks at it and says, “Wow, that is so cool,” or “I want to go into the Navy;” that’s something that will make an impact on the nation and the Navy.

OK, which is it - preserve the wrecks or recover them?

Time is running out.
The ball's in your court.
And it's deflating.

[tom d. friedman]

smacks of horn tooting & propaganda by the nhc

[TAdan]

[Shay]

If I recall correctly. I remember reading that a PBJ did ditch in Lake Murray that same day as the B-25C. The only difference was that it did so in shallow water and was eventually recovered by the Navy.

Shay
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[tom d. friedman]

what a co-ink-adink!!!

[Robbie Stuart]

This will help clear up the deal between the B-25C & the PBJ. Check it out www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-6g.htm Hope this helps.
Robbie

[k5083]

This will help clear up the deal between the B-25C & the PBJ. Check it out www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-6g.htm Hope this helps.
Robbie

Oh, man, this is great.

As I read that article I could not help but think that if Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind") made a mockumentary comedy film about aircraft wreck investigation, this would be the perfect script for it. Catherine O'Hara could play Wendy.

August

[AirJimL2]

I could not help but think that if Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind") made a mockumentary comedy film about aircraft wreck investigation, this would be the perfect script for it. Catherine O'Hara could play Wendy.

August,

Thanks for giving me a big laugh this AM! I needed it. Just thinking about Guest, his usual cast, and some of the potential scenes from the movie and I can't help but snicker.



Jim

[k5083]

Yeah Jim, can't you just see Fred Willard as the stuffed shirt Navy brass ... Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, and Larry Miller as the meddling xenophobic locals ... Guest and David Cross as the amateur salvors ... and in the end they don't even have convincing evidence that they ever found the wreck. I can barely resist emailing the link to Guest, I'm sure he'd instantly see the possibilities.

August

[TimAPNY]

I think the flash back scene of the wreckage search being carried out with dynamite might take the show! I can just picture a row board with some E-1 and an O-4 tossing them over the side and the camera pans out and they are surrounded by thousands of dead floating fish.


On a side note, a PBJ and being an “H” model seems like something worth recovering. But I get the idea that the crew don't mean squat to them. The a/c could not be easily recovered and restored so they did not even try to recover the crew? That makes my blood boil a bit. All missing crews should be recovered and given a proper burial (IMO).

Maybe they need to try and find Neisse or Champ next!

Note to self, “must no rant, must not rant”

Tim

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