Saw this old WW II photograph today on FaceBook taken on New Guinea in 1945 it stated on the caption…with a remark that this veteran knew were some were buried …………… so here we go again in Three….. Two….One…. !!!! Sad yet remarkable photo of such airpower that once was…look at all those P-38’s…. Wish some could have been saved !
By: 43-2195 - 23rd January 2014 at 05:19
Nope, Biak….It’s a published Time-Life photograph. Abandoned by an Air Depot Group. The buried ones are at Finschhafen in PNG. The 15th ADG also buried aircraft in Townsville in 45. But the Australian scrapers dug them up soon after they had departed.
By: D1566 - 22nd January 2014 at 12:51
Some of those aircraft can only have been a few months old.
By: D1566 - 22nd January 2014 at 12:49
Can you give a link to the FB page please? Thanks.
By: Feather #3 - 22nd January 2014 at 12:10
Hmm……Nadzab??
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January 22, 2014 at 2:29 am