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Posted by Cees Broere on Mon Dec 02, 2002 03:48:39 AM

Hi all,

Yesterday afternoon I saw a documentary on NGC about the fate of a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bomber and its crew which went missing in the Kurills (don't know about the spelling).

An American team from Hawaii went there to search for the missing crewmembers and trying to establish what happened on that mission. The wreck was substantially intact until the sixties when it was found by hunters. The Russians then sawed the wreck apart. However the preservation was still very good with a lot of paint still bright.

During the investigation they also found the wreck of another Ventura. This one was also in an amazing state of preservation.

Very very interesting.

Cees

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