The airplane was called the “Truculent Turtle,” it had a kangaroo on board and its unplanned landing after a record-setting flight briefly made Columbus the focus of international attention in 1946.

In the early evening of Sept. 29, 1946, a P2V Neptune patrol plane rumbled down a runway in Perth, Australia, her crew monitoring the aircraft’s speed until it reached 87 knots at which time Cmdr.

Naval aircraft traditionally have nicknames. The third production Lockheed P2V-1 Neptune was named the “Truculent Turtle," after Lockheed’s mission, Operation Turtle, intended to extend the ...

Downtown office workers looked to the skies at 12:20?p.m. on Oct. 1, 1946, as the Truculent Turtle, a propeller-powered plane designed to carry atomic weapons, came into view at the unscheduled end of ...

1944 - USS Narwhal (SS-167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao 1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, ...