The Tanapag PBM Mariner: Aircraft Identification through Site Formation Processes
Author(s): Jack A. Adamson
Year: 2020
Summary
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.
During the Second World War, flying boats were crucial in the roles of reconnaissance, patrol, rescue, and transportation. This was especially true in the Pacific Theater. One such flying boat, a United States Navy (USN) PBM Mariner, has rested on the bottom of Tanapag Harbor, Saipan since the waning days of that war. While the site has been impacted by wartime and post-war salvage, archaeologists were able to identify the aircraft’s make and model following a survey in 2011. Building on this, field work was conducted in July of 2019 to identify both the aircraft’s model variant and its individual identity. This paper will outline the process of historical and archaeological work on the PBM Mariner and present results related to the above research aims.
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The Tanapag PBM Mariner: Aircraft Identification through Site Formation Processes. Jack A. Adamson. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457530)
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Keywords
General
PBM Mariner
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Saipan
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Site Formation Processes
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Second World War
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 221