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!Breaking News 25 May 2016!

A TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau 

TBM image 3660 photo credit National Archives, NARA

TBM image 3667 photo credit National Archives, NARA

TBM image 3684 photo credit National Archives, NARA

 

60-Minutes segment by Anderson Cooper, who spent a few days this spring with the BentProp team in Palau, aired Sunday evening, November 23, 2014 AND will air again on May 24, 2015!

 

 
"Vanished," Wil Hylton's masterpiece about BentProp, the war in the Pacific, the search for long-lost heroes, and the effect of "ambiguous loss" on families across generations, has just been released in paperback.

 

A film produced by GoPro, released Friday Nov 7, about BentProp, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of Deleware:

Palau: Searching for Heroes

 

 

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CNET / MSNBC story featuring:

BentProp, Scripps Instutution of Oceanography, University of Delaware & Stockbridge High School!!

 

BentProp is in Ocean News & Technology

The BentProp Project is in the May 2014 issue of Ocean News & Technology! Check out the article here...

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Found- TBM Avenger!
The crash site of a TBM Avenger has been found by the team! There are up to three MIAs associated with the aircraft loss. Here are the reports:

P-MAN XVI Update # 12 - The crash site is found

P-MAN XVI Update # 13 - photos from the day of discovery

P-MAN XVI Update # 14 - a discovery 9 years in the making

Found- F6F Hellcat!
The crash site of a F6F Hellcat has been found by the team! The team has been looking for this aircraft for over a decade. Here is the report:

P-MAN XVI Update # 16 - the exciting discovery

Members of the SHS Underwater Robotics Team shared their short film, Technology and the Path to Palau, at the first annual White House Student Film Festival and received an honorable mention!

Watch the short film here!

The robotics team will once again be travelling to Palau, March 27 through 13 April 2014.

Vanished by Wil S. Hylton

Wil S. Hylton's book Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II is available for purchase. A portion of the book sales will be donated to BentProp Project.

 

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