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Post by fireball on May 6, 2012 19:08:27 GMT 8
and another plane on a stick. This time the DC3 outside the Air Nuigini / old Terminal entrance at the main airport in port Moresby (for further info: www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/c-47/43-49849.html)Now visiting sites like this in Port Moresby is a bit different due to the ever constant danger of carjacking. This is, as the name suggests, the taking of a the vehicle at (normally) gunpoint and with a fair physical element of 'control of the situation'. So just stoping while driving is a practice which creates panic with passengers and warnings from colleagues. But, when alone (and free from the inevitable screams of horror) I am slowly working through a list of ww2 related sites within the City. Not a fast process as caution means that it may not always be possible to stop. Is it a real danger, well in fact it is. Where I work there are just three staff who own cars and all three have been victims of carjacking. Ah for the ease of the Philippines. But otherwise Port Moresby (and PNG as a whole) is a great country with some of the friendliest people out - its just a combinations of many opportunists and a few eager criminals which add the danger.
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Post by dmether on May 7, 2012 16:37:14 GMT 8
Papua also has some of the best WWII crash sites, however you need a helicopter to get to them. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on May 7, 2012 16:44:53 GMT 8
B-24 nose art is still crisp, this was in 2003 about 10,500' up the side of a mountain. Attachments:
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Post by westernaus on May 7, 2012 23:54:13 GMT 8
Hey Fireball I had a few Aussie friends who lived in Port Moresby . A couple with families . They employed a couple of german sheperd dogs . One always went in the car or four wheel drive . The other family had a german sheperd and at that stage some stun grenades , to shake up the rascalls brains. Of course they have long since left PNG and live somewhere in the Eastern States of Australia. As with Corregidor my ambition is to search PNG WW2 sites . ( just waiting for the big lotto win ). Thanks for your PNG shots . And thanks to Dmether for your shots .
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Post by okla on May 8, 2012 3:39:46 GMT 8
Hey Terry....I have encouraged Fireball and I also think it your sworn duty to trek to Kokoda and Buna/Gona before you are called to your "reward". These two sites, as I keep sermonizing, have not received their just due as far as the writing of the history of the Pacific War. Glad to see you back on the forum. Will conflab with you later thru our regular "channels". Cheers
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Post by sherwino on May 8, 2012 7:19:45 GMT 8
Is that you, David, holding the b-24 nose art? I wish I could hold a piece of Lt. Stone's P-40.
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Post by dmether on May 12, 2012 9:32:52 GMT 8
Yes, have info on aircraft site, kept my map from when we went looking for them. But the guy who is the Master of aircraft sites is Brian Bennett, look him up on Pacific Wrecks. He's been looking for aircraft in Papua since 1975. In my picture, he's the guy holding the piece of nose art, I took the picture.
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Post by dmether on May 12, 2012 10:03:59 GMT 8
Here is what I kept from Papua, a row of bomb mission markers off a B-25 "Ole Tomato" from the crash site we found. I have it in my house in Angeles City. Attachments:
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Post by dmether on May 12, 2012 10:09:01 GMT 8
The "Ole Tomato" Attachments:
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Post by dmether on May 12, 2012 10:24:04 GMT 8
Also picked up a data plate. Top row says: "Model Zero No 1 Fighter of the aircraft carrier Middle: " Mitsubishi No. 2721 Type Bottom is the serial number. Attachments:
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