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UD researchers help locate lost heroes from World War II
by Karen B. Roberts
and Teresa Messmore
Photos courtesy of Mark Moline
Flip Colmer, longtime member of the BentProp Project, identifies a Corsair discovered off Palau in 2013.
The grandfather of UD’s Mark Moline— O. Karl Olander—was a Navy chaplain aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton, which attacked Palau in 1944. The vessel is shown during its shakedown cruise in the Atlantic on May 31, 1943, carrying nine SBD scout bombers and 12 F4F fighters. Moline and a colleague at Scripps Institution of Oceanography began collaborating with the BentProp Project in 2013 and helped locate a U.S. TBM Avenger and an F6F Hellcat in 2014. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
