The National Museum of the Great Lakes is educating people about an airman whom many might not know.
The museum opened a micro exhibit Saturday that includes the story of the life and death of Lt. Frank H. Moody, a Tuskegee Airman whose P-39 Airacobra fighter plane was found in Lake Huron in 2014.
The lieutenant died during a training mission over the Great Lakes in 1944 while he was stationed at the current Selfridge Air National Guard Base north of Detroit, per previous Blade reporting.
Carrie Sowden, archaeological and research director for the museum, is involved with studying the aircraft for research to figure out what exactly happened to cause the aircraft to crash, with the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum, the state of Michigan, and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources helping fund the effort, she said.
“We were talking about things and we’re like, ‘Let’s tell more people about it,’” she said. “Every time I talk to somebody about it they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so cool.’”