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Aircraft sunk with SS Alexander Macomb 1942
I've just seen a docu (on YouTube) about this Liberty ship sunk near Georges Bank, off the US East Coast. Luckily the death toll was small but obviously all Sherman tanks and P-38 aircraft it carried were lost.
It is reported that part of the ship's load was salvaged in the mid '60s but no website elaborates on that.
It would be good to know wheter there was any attempt at restoring the tanks and aircraft at the time of the recovery.
Yet, the damage done by seawater and marine micro-organisms might not be superficial...I saw a V-12 completely covered in shells and the like, so much that the engine shape was barely recognizable.
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