ROV-Based 3D Modeling Efforts on a Submerged WWII Aircraft for Museum Display
Author(s): Megan Lickliter-Mundon; Bridget Buxton
Year: 2016
Summary
In 1944, factory workers and community members from Tulsa, OK bought war bonds to finance the last B-24 Liberator built by the Tulsa Douglas Aircraft plant. They named her, wrote signatures and messages on her fuselage, and sent her to Europe with a part Tulsa crew. She went down off the coast of Croatia after a bombing mission but was never forgotten as a WWII community icon. Archaeologists are now in the process of preserving the cultural heritage and physical remains of the site, as well providing the Tulsa community with tangible materials for a museum display of ‘their’ aircraft. Diver-based methods of producing a 3D site map were difficult to follow due to the 130 foot depth, so ROV technology was used to assist divers in acquiring imagery. This presentation will discuss the methodology used with ROV-based mapping of archaeological sites and the importance of 3D modeling aircraft in-situ.
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ROV-Based 3D Modeling Efforts on a Submerged WWII Aircraft for Museum Display. Megan Lickliter-Mundon, Bridget Buxton. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 435089)
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Keywords
General
3D modeling
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Aviation Archaeology
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conflict archaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1944
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 156