The Trinidad and Tobago Mission 2022: A Sunken B-25 and a New Partnership between the University of Miami and DPAA

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Near the end of WWII, a B-25G departed an airfield in Trinidad for a 50 mile, 4-hour long photographic mission to Tobago. After hearing an airplane overhead, eye witness accounts detailed a craft with potential engine problems that turned into a ball of smoke and flame that plummeted from an altitude of 200 feet straight down to the water where it crashed and sank offshore from western Tobago. In 2022, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Sciences partnered with DPAA on an investigation mission to locate and document the sunken B-25G.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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