PNG WW2 aircraft wrecks

[Mike K]

I went to high school with a kid, he told us of his dads wartime pilot days, being shot down over Germany ..a unusual surname .

Anyway , a few years back I found a book in a op shop .. this same guy was featured in the book . After his POW days , he came home and he was in a special RAAF unit after the war , the same chap ! His unit had a lugger and they traveled all over PNG looking for missing aircraft .Among many wrecks, they found mass graves of aircrew , executed .

The kid and his father played cricket in a local team and I met them again in 1972 . My cricket career was short

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Well worth getting this book if you're interested in this subject. It was first published in 1979 and then re-published in 1986. I bought my copy in 1989 and still find it fascinating to browse through every now and then.

Subtitle "Where to find them" - one has to realise a lot has changed since Charles Darby (and others) mapped out these wrecks. Fates range from being scrapped to being recovered, restored, or rebuilt to flying condition. It think the latest wreck to be recovered is the B17E 41-2446 "Swamp Ghost" - see http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org...s-swamp-ghost2

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