Aeronautical Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Broken Wings, Recovered Souls: Understanding Site Formation Processes and Developing a Lexicon for Terrestrial Military Aircraft Crash Site Types Associated with the Recovery of Missing Personnel Remains (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Eck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation is intended to serve as a basic guide for archaeologists to the several types of military aircraft wreck sites and debris fields that may be encountered—describing both the processes that created the incidents and the processes that subsequently affected the aircraft wreckage and human...


Two TBD-1s Devastators BuNo. 0298 and BuNo 1515; Fifteen Years of In Situ Monitoring, Documentation and Planning. (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter D. Fix.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. "This is 5-T-7. 5-T-7 and 5-T-6 are landing at Jaluit. Are landing alongside one of the northwestern islands of Jaluit. That is all." That was the final message received aboard the Yorktown at 0811 from Lt. Harlan T. Johnson, ranking officer of two TBD-1 Devastators that were about to make water landings in a...