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Remains recovered from WWII seaplane in Quebec

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  1. GTHill

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    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/07/29/warplane-quebec.html?cmp=rss

    "A special U.S. military team has almost finished its month-long mission off Quebec's north shore to recover the bodies of five crew who drowned 70 years ago when their U.S. Army seaplane slid into the waters.

    The wind was fierce and the waves were surging on that day 70 years ago in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, a small fishing village.

    In 1942, the village became the site of an emergency airstrip on the U.S. military's so-called "Crimson Route," a strategic air corridor to Europe through Maine and Newfoundland.

    Late in the afternoon on Nov. 2, 1942, most of the village stopped to watch a U.S. Army seaplane taxi from the harbour."

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    My dad spent the war stationed at the RCAF base in Gander, NF. There was a squadron of PBYs there that was tasked with antisubmarine patrol.
     

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