Some Planes Were Destroyed

While Mueller managed to find over 150 airplanes on the seabed, not all made it to the ground in perfect conditions. While most remained in excellent condition, some of the planes were not as lucky and were destroyed before they reached the bottom. However, even these broken planes can still tell underwater archeologists quite a bit about the aircraft of the time!

Believe it or not, the Marshall Islands find was actually not the first time the U.S. Army abandoned military equipment in the ocean. In fact, more often than one might think, expensive military equipment is left behind in strange places…