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DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Lickliter-Mundon. Frank Cantelas. Wendy Coble. Jeremy Kinney. Jennifer F McKinnon. Jeffrey Meyer. Andrew Pietruszka. James R. Pruitt. Hans Van Tilburg.

American B-29 Superfortress aircraft flew missions against Japan from air bases in the Marianas Islands near the end of WWII. Combat damage or technical failures forced many B-29s into the ocean surrounding Saipan and Tinian, but no losses in deep water were discovered until 2016, when a NOAA exploration cruise investigated sonar targets in the Saipan Channel. Disarticulated wreckage from a B-29 was located at 370m over a large area. Telepresence enabled exploration from NOAA’s ship Okeanos...