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Underwater photographer discovers WWII airplane graveyard (9 PHOTOS)
While scuba diving about five miles from the coast in the Marshall Islands, photographer Brandi Mueller happened upon an amazing discovery: A World War II “airplane graveyard” at the bottom of the ocean floor.
Apparently the airplanes weren’t there because they crashed, but rather they were pushed off of the reef, into the water once the war ended.
Mueller, who is from Cameron, Wisconsin, said shipwrecks seem a somewhat normal thing to stumble upon in the ocean, but not planes from a war fought 70 years ago. Nonetheless, she called the discovery both amazing and special.
Still, Mueller said, “They should have flown more, lived longer, but they were sunk in perfect condition.”
See the entire “airplane graveyard” here and Mueller’s other work, which consists mainly of marine life, here.
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Source: http://www.guns.com/2015/05/12/underwater-photographer-discovers-wwii-airplane-graveyard-9-photos/
is’nt the marshall islands the same plaace that they did lots of nuclear tests, I think my father was there in the early 1950′s
if any of them are the Vickers Varsity planes they were probably the ones that they used to fly through the newk clouds collecting samples
My dad worked on them, they would have dumped them there because they were highly radioactive, as were his hands working on them.
I beleive the US did some tests first then the British did some more there after, even in the middle of Australia there are loads of equipment left there that is still highly toxic today