A and T Recovery, a U.S. company that specializes in recovering WW II aircraft, has proposed to recover four warbirds that were lost when aircraft carrier USS Lexington was sunk.
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One of those aircraft is a Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat that was previously flown by aces Albert O. Vorse, Noel Gayler, John Thach and Edward O’Hare. O’Hare is the Navy’s first fighter ace of the second world war and the O’Hare International Airport is named after him. Thach developed the famous Thach Weave combat flight formation that allowed the Wildcat to overcome its combat disadvantages against the more maneuverable Mitsubishi Zero fighter.
USS Lexington was hit by several Japanese bombs and torpedoes on May 8, 1942 during the Battle of Coral Sea. Badly damaged, the aircraft carrier was scuttled by the U.S. Navy to prevent its capture by the Japanese. It now lies approximately 3,000 meters under water. The wreckage and the fighters were discovered in March 2018 by a team of researchers led by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.
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