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Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:55 am

Any one know what museum in Nebraska it is headed to?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ghost-boat


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Re: Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:01 am

Thanks for posting. It is an amazingly important piece of history. Hopefully it will one day be at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. IT would be worth a lot of money to them.
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Re: Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:45 am

marine air wrote:Thanks for posting. It is an amazingly piece of history. Hopefully it will one day be at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. IT would be worth a lot of money to them.


Hopefully worth more for its historical value though.

Re: Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:38 pm

It's a postwar one, with fiberglass sides. WW2 ones were plywood and it'd rotted away from the floor by now if it was a WW2 made one.

Re: Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:10 am

It is heading to the National Guard Museum in Seward, Nebraska. More photos and info here-
https://www.fox9.com/news/wwii-ghost-bo ... remarkable

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Re: Not a warbird - Higgins boat emerges from Lake Shasta

Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:49 pm

Warbirdnerd wrote:It is heading to the National Guard Museum in Seward, Nebraska. More photos and info here-
https://www.fox9.com/news/wwii-ghost-bo ... remarkable

WOW, that is a WW2 one, with plywood sides! This is the first photo where you can see wood grain.
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