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Post by dmether on Jun 12, 2014 19:48:25 GMT 8
I thought this one was interesting, On 11 Apr 1945 MSgt Oliver Edwards and Maj. Francis Tredget where flying in an L-5 dropping supplies to troops fighting up a mountain on Negros when their plane went down. They were close enough to American troops that they could hear one of them calling for help. Only one body was recovered, Maj. Tredget. And that was only a partial skull. In 1952 the wreckage was found by a local who turned in some long bones, minus a skull. These remains were buried as an unknown in the Punchbowl as X-6012. The person who found the wreckage said they were located under a seat, but two years earlier he had found part of a lower jaw bone about a kilometer away. My thoughts are, the skull and the Unknown remains are the same person, and the other guy survived the crash and was taken by the Japanese and executed. However no idea what happened to the lower jaw that was found.
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Post by fortman on Jun 12, 2014 22:33:11 GMT 8
This is just another example of the shocking treatment meted out to POWs by the Japs. I remember reading of a P-61 crew who also fell into Japanese hands in the Philippines and were executed. At the Battle of Midway the crews of a TBD torpedo plane and an SBD dive bomber were fished out of the sea by two different Japanese destroyers and both crews were murdered after interrogation. I wonder what the revisionists make of such cases.
Fortman
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Post by dmether on Jun 13, 2014 7:41:39 GMT 8
The P-61 you mentioned was MACR 13583, went down on Panay in March 45. Pilot died in the crash, but the gunner survived. He had his injuries treated by the Japanese, then he was taken out and used for bayonet practice.
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