The great Navy birds of Lake Michigan : the true story of the privateers of Lake Michigan and the aircraft they rescued

Author

Taras C Lyssenko

Call Numbers

• 359.94 L995 (CEN)
• H 359.94 L995 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Charleston, SC] : Arcadia Publishing, 2019.

Physical Description

160 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 24 cm

Notes

America Through Time is an imprint of Fonthill Media LLC. Book is published by Arcadia Publishing by arrangement with Fonthill Media.

Contents

• The project that set everything in motion
• Our first Pensacola contract
• Who was D. Blan Stewart?
• We had to recover as many as possible
• The early Holocene Forest
• Trying to do something against the law, change the law
• UC-97
• The Naval Historical Center had become involved
• And then there was "Midway madness"
• Recovery continues with SBD-1 1612
• The rewrite of the SecNav instruction
• O'Hare International Airport Wildcat
• The Naval Historical Center comes back true to form
• The invaders have arrived
• A SBD dauntless for Midway Airport
• Recovery begins again in 2009 under Rear Admiral Jay A. DeLoach, USN (Ret.)
• A Helldiver in the Lower Otay Reservoir
• Hellcat
• A "bird cage"
• Air Zoo Aircraft
• The Wells Burt, Thomas Hume, and a few other shipwrecks
• SBD-1 Bureau Number 1612
• A never ending story.