A month or so back there was an episode of a show on Discovery Channel, Expedition Unkown (12/2 “FindingThe Lost Pilots”), on an investigation looking for US aircraft lost in Chuuk lagoon during Operation Hailstone. (Feb. 17/18 1944) with Project Recovery. They located an SBD-5 . Between info from locals and eyewitness accounts they IDed the aircraft/ crew. Anybody happen to know the names and unit/ carrier? I cant find the episode on Youube to refresh my memory. (They have had a number of lost WW2 aircraft episodes … C-47 full of WACs that disappeared off west Africa, WASP ferrying a P-51 cross country that went missing in the Sierras. TBF lost off the Channel Islands (Ca), Fairy Barracuda lost in Operation Tungsten. )
SBD-5 USS Enterprise VB-10. 18 February 1944. Ensign Donald Dean and ARM2 James J. McGorry.
Thank you Colin Colbourn. Project Recovery