Yesterday, Marie and Glenn from New Zealand, took me for a tour of the WWII aircraft wrecks that are still on the island. An American and Glenn are working to find a specific plane that was flown by the American's relative. We also saw the Continental airplane that flipped over landing at the old airport in the 1980's. While several were injured, no one was killed. It was a very interesting day and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing more relics of the war. You will see in one of the pictures that Glenn has a machete to clear the way as well as to clear some of the growth around the planes. The planes are American and Japanese. There is a website:
www.missingaircrew.com that has many pictures and stories.
The next two pictures are of an American aircraft.
Marie and Glenn by a Japanese aircraft.
The next two are of the Continental aircraft. Eventually the jungle reclaims everything.
Search for the American plane.
Wing of Lt. Lillard's plane. They will resume looking for the rest of the aircraft in 2015.
Land based Japanese gun.
Downed American plane.
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