Further reference to the Search on East New Britain….

Sigh… sorry for the thread drift…..

Mr. Boyle….

We have been through all this before. Many, many people have inferred just what you are inferring, ie; “That it could have been a Japanese aircraft, that they saw”… which is what you are saying. People will continually try and place another aircraft type in that spot on the side of a hill in ENB without looking at the words of the Vets and reviewing the evidence.

One ridiculous statement made recently on “another forum” by a brainless individual, put the aircraft they saw as a three-engined Guinea Airways Junkers G31, “destroyed by the Army of Nippon and then placed on ENB”. If that were the case the Australian Diggers would have referred to it as being made of “wriggly tin”, the common expression in Oz for corrugated iron. Then logically, identification would have fallen onto a “wriggly tin” aircraft….

Yes, what they saw was “wrecked”, they gave no indication that it was “burnt” (tanks dry) and so, …onto your “faded”….

Mr. Boyle, as for Hinomaru’s fading…. I have stood looking at a Nakajima Helen sat forlornly at Alexishaven and seen a bright and shiny Hinomaru on it 45 years after the end of WWII so you cannot tell me that if it were a Jap aircraft they saw with the longest possibility of only three years “of fading” that they would have somehow “missed” the big red blob on the side of the fuselage…..

Chill out yourself, Mr. Boyle …and apply some logic to the pointers to identification contained in the website.

RPM, FF, TGT…
http://www.electranewbritain.com