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Diving into the past: Team scours a South Pacific atoll for WWII wrecks linked to MIAs

The Kwajalein MIA Project found the coral-encrusted propellers of a Coronado patrol bomber plane in Kwajalein Lagoon in 2011.


By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 2, 2017

KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands — The deep lagoon of Kwajalein Atoll is a graveyard for dozens of Japanese and American ships and planes that sank during World War II.

The wrecks make for some of the finest scuba diving in the Pacific. But for a small group of divers who live on this remote Army missile test base, finding ruins holding the remains of Americans killed in action has become an all-consuming passion.

https://www.stripes.com/news/diving-into-the-past-team-scours-a-south-pacific-atoll-for-wwii-wrecks-linked-to-mias-1.461776#.WONY26K1v4a
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