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HAWAII Monday, April 08, 2013
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HAWAII: Ten feet below the waters of the Midway Atoll are the remains of a broken, infamous, slightly stubby piece of aviation history. The wreckage is believed to be from a Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo, one of the United States’ first monoplane fighters, that went down in a squall in 1942, a few months before the Battle of Midway. Though Buffaloes (perhaps not the most inspiring name for an aircraft) saw action in the battle, they generally lived up to their reputation as “flying coffins.” 
