Dauntless SDB slated for restoration

This is the Dauntless SDB that crashed in Lake Michigan in 1944. It was
recovered last month and is now at the National Naval Air Museum in
Pensacola for restoration. Right now there is a tarp under the aircraft to
catch pieces and parts that have come loose. In addition to the pieces and
parts one finds lots of mussels and shells on the tarp.
They figure it will take three years to restore the aircraft. It will then
go to the museum in New Orleans.

"Beachcomber" wrote in
:

This is the Dauntless SDB that crashed in Lake Michigan in 1944. It
was recovered last month

Disregard my last post, they arrived out of order.

plane looks better in this photo than the ones they took
when she was pulled out of the water..