On a cold morning in late 2019, a team of dedicated wreck-hunters and aviation-history enthusiasts finally hauled a rusted relic from the murky depths of a North American lake — a WWII-era fighter plane that had lain forgotten underwater for decades. The long-submerged warbird, once a symbol of speed and power, had become a silent artifact of war, nature, and time.
During and just after World War II, many training accidents, emergency landings, and carrier-qualification flights resulted in aircraft ditching into lakes, bays, or reservoirs.
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