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NatGeo documents salvage of Tuskegee Airman’s lost WWII plane wreckage -- "The Real Red Tails investigates the fatal crash of 2nd Lt. Frank Moody in 1944."


The Real Red Tails investigates the fatal crash of 2nd Lt. Frank Moody in 1944.

Enlarge/ Michigan's State Maritime Archaeologist Wayne R. Lusardi takes notes underwater at the Lake Huron WWII wreckage of 2nd Lt. Frank Moody's P-39 Airacobra. Over the last few years, a team of divers working with the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit has been diligently recovering the various parts of Moody's plane to determine what caused the pilot's fatal crash. It was then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who helped tip popular opinion in favor of the fledgling unit when she flew with the Airmen's chief instructor, C. Alfred Anderson, in March 1941.

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