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California man hunts for Nile Kinnick plane wreckage
Richard Tosaw, 77, of California, funds a decade long search with Martin Woodward in bay waters near Trinidad seeking artifacts from Nile Kinnick’s 1943 Navy Grumman Wildcat crash. He hopes to recover dog tags or wreckage for donation to the US and to honor the Heisman winner from Omaha.
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California
Nile Kinnick
Owa City
Richard Tosaw
Gulf of Paria
Iowa
Trinidad
Martin Woodward
Kinnick
Caribbean
Tosaw
US Writers’ Workshop
Michael Tosaw
The
Gulf
Port of Spain
Nile
Omaha
Hawkeye
UI Law School
U.S. Navy
Grumman
al Coupee
George “Red” Fry
Tosan
Lexington
Woodward
English Channel
Glenn Miller
Fry
Iron Man Squad
Albia
University of Iowa
Iowa City
National Archives
Grumman Wildcat