World War II history discovered off LI, accidentally

The wreck of the sole Thunderbolt prototype, one of World War II’s fiercest and fastest warplanes, which crashed into the Long Island Sound in 1942 shortly after taking off from Republic Airport, has been discovered in about 50 feet of water, diver Kirby Kurkomelis said. He found it while searching for two airmen who crashed in 1947, whose remains he was hired to find. Credit: Michael Owens