TW: I always find these stories about pulling things out of the seas or in this case a deep lake interesting. Above is a WWII era navy dive bomber retrieved last week from waters about 25 miles off the Chicago shore. Aspiring naval aviators trained from bases along the Chicago area shoreline, apparently up to 100 of them left but did not make it back to the bases during the war. Many of the planes remain entombed in Lake Michigan. Think about it though, 100 planes lost just in training from our one area is quite a few, thank goodness for modern simulators. The plane was retrieved btw on behalf of a naval aviation museum.http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/world-war-ii-dive-bomber-recovered-from-lake.html
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