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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 28, 2007 22:57:36 GMT 12
The February Pacific Wings has a note in the news section saying an RNZAF Ventura was discovered at its WWII crash site in the islands late last year.
Does anyone here have more information, particularly which one? And specific location?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 1, 2007 21:03:10 GMT 12
I have no further knowledge, and the news item is pretty vague, but browsing through the Ventura file for Solomon Islands losses the following would seem to be possible candidates:
NZ4567 - Lost on anti-submarine patrol off Guadalcanal 3Nov44
NZ4570 - Lost on transit flight Vila-Santo 8Aug44
NZ4575 - Missing on ferry flight 10Oct44
NZ4578 - Cr Malaita 28May45
NZ4634 - Cr 20Dec42 ex-Green Island, Guadalcanal, while suppy dropping
All of the rest of them crashed at airfields during the take-off/landing phase, crashed in Fiji or NZ, were lost at sea, or survived the war to be scrapped at a later date.
Not a lot to go on, I know, but maybe more info will surface later.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 1, 2007 21:39:08 GMT 12
Thanks Peter, that's much the same conclusion i have drawn. I hope more is released. It would be nice if the bodies could be located too for the families' sakes.
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