Not aviation related, but...............WWII sub found

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:08 am

FYI

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ht=lagarto

http://www.dbfnetwork.info/lagarto/

As mentioned as well in the earlier post, a P-38 was found too.

regards,

t~

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:55 pm

O.P. wrote:

NBF (this ones for airnutz)

The kind of misguided sentiment I'd expect from a member of the Order of the Glowing Cajones! You guys were so smug...being able to walk down a dark path at night without flashlights!

I can't watch ET the movie without getting a really disturbing image in my head now...

Diesel Boats Forever!!!...they'll be back!

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:06 pm

Originalboxcar wrote:

As mentioned as well in the earlier post, a P-38 was found too.

regards,

t~

T~, in your travels through the website and links concerning the sunken P-38...
Have ever seen the photos of her? They were supposed to go back, remove the
fishnets and photo it. I've yet to locate them.

Tim Landers · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:37 pm

For a good WWII Sub book read "Thunder Below" by Adm. Eugene Fluckey.

Airnutz, seeing that you are in Galveston, are you involved with the USS Cavalla? I would like to THANK you and O.P. for your service!

Tim Landers

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:15 pm

No Tim, I'm not involved with the Cavalla, other than visiting her as a teen
and in more recent years since I moved back into the area. She does look
GRAND now since those exceptional gents brought her back from ruin.
The Galveston city council actually tried to have her scrapped before the rescue!!

Thanks for the sentiment Tim, but I was a bonehead one-tour-wonder on
a most excellent adventure...Reels 'n Meals, as Op said. The guys who deserve
your respect are the guys who do that job as a profession..they have mine.

OP, I joke and you demure your time spent, but it really took brass cajones
to ride a Big & Black Never Come Back for 8 years..hat's off to ya!

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:45 pm

I’ve listen to my Brother’s stories in Fast Attack Hell ( also on 674), I’m very glad I was a target bobbing around on the surface!

I agree that a Sailor’s grave is with Dave Jones, In a strange way he owns us all, even if it was for a short 4 years. I hated the sea while I also loved it. I hate to admit it but I really do miss it, Not that I really want to go back but part of my soul is there and always will be.

Tim

Shay · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:48 pm

"A Sailor's Life For Me"

Let them rest.

"Fair Winds and Following Seas"

Shay
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Semper Fortis

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:15 am

Funny how the gubmint has no problem disturbing a "war grave" (cold war) when potential secrets are at stake.

Case and point:

http://www.espionageinfo.com/Fo-Gs/Glomar-Explorer.html

regards,

t~

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:38 am

Apparently the Glomar Explorer was employed by the Navy to recover AIRCRAFT as well!

Quote:

From 1978 to 1980, Global Marine operated the ship under cover performing deep-ocean mining test in water depths to 17,000 feet. It's primary mission involved historical aircraft salvaging 1000 miles south of Hawaii. Using hoppers and contract labor from France, the Glomar Explorer, in conjuction with the U.S. Navy successfully recovered several historical aircraft, including a S-42 seaplane and Lockheed Lodestar from a small deserted island in the Phoenix Islands. The recovery efforts were a success and had largely gone un-noticed. Then, for many years, the Explorer sat in Suisun Bay, in "mothball" status, part of the U.S. Naval Reserve Fleet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Glomar_Explorer

Anyone know which ones and where they are? Rob???

regards,

t~

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