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1 posted on 04/18/2016 1:06:28 PM PDT by pabianice
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What a bummer. My great uncle flew them during WWII doing sub patrols off the East Coast.


2 posted on 04/18/2016 1:09:23 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: pabianice

What a shame to see that happen


3 posted on 04/18/2016 1:09:30 PM PDT by Leto
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CUT!! Get me Re-Write!!!

Cage movies can be very costly to make.

Just watched Con Air take the Vegas strip out.

GOD bless those lost that fateful day in the Pacific.


4 posted on 04/18/2016 1:11:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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Destroyed??? Hardly. I’ve seen far worse wrecks restored to better than new condition.


5 posted on 04/18/2016 1:11:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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This was no boating accident!


7 posted on 04/18/2016 1:12:53 PM PDT by shotgun
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This happened in June of 2015, and the airplane was successfully recovered.

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/military/2015/07/01/wwii-seaplane-beached-behind-flora-bama/29575781/

8 posted on 04/18/2016 1:13:23 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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this happened last year


9 posted on 04/18/2016 1:13:47 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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Dang it

My Dad flew in those in the Navy.
I got to ride in one when I was a kid (they were used in Alaska to ferry passengers to Islands, and those bubble windows are not watertight, I got soaked on landing)


27 posted on 04/18/2016 1:31:34 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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Saved us all in World War Two
Beat Nazi Germany
Done in by recreation
30 posted on 04/18/2016 1:37:16 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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I’ll never wear a life jacket again.


34 posted on 04/18/2016 2:36:23 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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near the Alabama and Florida state border

There aren't many naval aviators that haven't had a mishap at the Flora-Bama.

37 posted on 04/18/2016 4:21:47 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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