I was doing a google image search for Rabaul, the mighty Japanese base in the Pacific war, and I found some really interesting shots of Japanese bombers laying in a coconut grove at Rabaul. I assume all these links show the same place.
See here (scroll down)
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Papua_New_Guinea/East_New_Britain_Province/Rabaul-1891916/Things_To_Do-Rabaul-BR-1.html
This excellent one is on some Japanese university website.
http://www.eqh.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mori/other/airplane.html
More googling found another one. Scroll down a few photos.
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/trobriand_islands.htm
I have tried searching the Pacific Wrecks Database to find more detail but their search facility is useless and I couldn’t pin the place or aircraft down. Does anyone know exactly what all the aircraft there are in this groe? And how many? And who owns them? I guess there’s no chance any will be saved from the elements and restored?
By: Dave Homewood - 12th December 2005 at 19:07
Thanks Shorty. I agree with you, a huge shame
By: Shorty01 - 12th December 2005 at 16:26
Try here Dave,
http://www.j-aircraft.com/relics/roger_kelly/rodger3.htm
More photos of other wrecks here,
http://www.j-aircraft.com/relics/relics.htm
It’s a crying shame that they are left to rot, esp as there are no restored/preserved examples of some of these types anywhere. There is a whole plethora of reasons why they are left there, lack of money to remove them, local government not wanting the removal of historic sites (a bit short sighted as they will disappear of their own accord at the mercy of the elements or get cut up for scrap) or locals demanding unrealistic sums of money for them due to their rarity.
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December 12, 2005 at 12:05 pm