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Newfoundland bomber Story

Posted by Harold Mulder on Wed Jun 25, 2003 04:12:58 AM

Here is the latest article on the efforts of an American to retrieve a bomber from a lake in Newfoundland.
My question after reading it is which aircraft are they refering to that sunk 2 U-Boats and where roughly is this aircraft.

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. - Lawyers in St. John's Tuesday argued the fate of a Second World War American bomber at the bottom of a Labrador lake.
A millionaire car parts dealer from Georgia found the wreck of the B-17 "flying fortress" in 1998 in Dyke Lake, where it's been since it crash-landed in 1947.
Don Brooks says he wants to salvage and restore the bomber, and has been trying to get the salvage rights from the province for five years.
"The province is saying that it's an archeological object, and I think that their construing of their organic law about archeology is just way off base," said Brooks's lawyer David Paul Horan.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador says it won't comment on the case while it's before the courts.
Horan said Ottawa has already commented on it.
"The federal government of Canada has taken our position on it, and said the Federal Act of Salvage does apply and it is a subject of salvage," said Horan.
The federal court is expected to make its decision this summer, and the ruling should set the provincial policy on salvaging aircraft wrecks.
There are several other such wrecks in Labrador, including a Canadian bomber that sank two U-boats during the Second World War.

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