Moore: Finding lost WWII plane is Christmas gift to pilot's family (Saipan Tribune)

[gunner]

Volunteers led by businessman-historian Kenneth Moore recalled how his group found remnants of an American fighter plane that was downed by the Japanese forces during World War II, dedicating the effort as Christmas present to the surviving members of U.S. squadron "Highhatters" and the family of the lost plane's fallen Navy pilot, Lt. Roy Bechtol.

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[Philjr]

Great story.

 

[PlayTheOdds]

I agree that that is a great story but something is really wrong. The story reads as if he were dispatched from the Carrier Yorktown on June 23 of 1944, the date of the crash. The problem is that the Yorktown was sunk on June 7, 1942 after taking many hits from Japanese aircraft and finally being sunk by a Japanese submarine.