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Originally Posted by KNS
Unfortunately the Navy won’t let anyone touch those aircraft or bring them up.
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Tecnically, Airplanes are not ship wrecks so not the same protection applies.
Considering the individual planes might not be near the carrier itself
They would have drifted off in the wake, being light and all that while the Lex went down. And if the planes don't have remains in them.
Perhaps somebody at the Navy might see the historical significance and allow recovery and preservation.
Better the Navy does then some other party does it and then claim it's not a shipwreck.
Hell, even actual WW2 shipwrecks that are protected have been disappearing in that region of the world
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/worlds-biggest-grave-robbery-asias-disappearing-ww2-shipwrecks