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Another unknown plane fuselage near the same site....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/twiggy-forrest-expedition-new-guinea-world-war-two-bombers/103695936

Generally when we think about downed aircraft in New Guinea its the jungle that covers the secrets...

But we (me) most of the air war was over the coastal areas or across the ocean in the many harbours that the islands had.

Rabaul being the staging post for most Naval forays, to NG. This wreck is to the south of the island (NG).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/missing-wwii-bomber-and-crew-found-papua-new-guinea/103691758

Japanese Air War in New Guinea.....

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/journal/j34/shind

The most famous of the beaufort strikes in the pacific is the Battle of the Bismark sea.... Intercepting Japanese reinforcements to the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea

With a couple of live wires up my ass I'd tell you what you want to hear also....

The fella that flew Marge got the Medal of Honor...

The plane crashed in New Guinea while being flown by another pilot...

A search team reckons they can find it.....

Sure..... but goodluck...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/23/museum-historical-group-launch-search-wreckage-of-ace-pilot-richard-bongs-crashed-plane.html

Major Richard J Bong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong

The bell of the USS Jacob Jones (DD-61), an American destroyer built in New York in 1916 and sunk off the Isles of Scilly during World War I, has been recovered by a salvage unit with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, Salvage and Marine Operations. The ship was one of six Tucker class destroyers, the first U.S. destroyers to displace more than 1,000 tons. The Jacob Jones was sent to Queenstown, Ireland, to protect the western approaches to the United Kingdom and France from U-boat attacks in May of 1917. The vessel was torpedoed by a U-boat on December 6, 1917, while returning to Queenstown after handing off a convoy near France, and sank in about eight minutes. Rear Admiral Sam Cox of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command explained that the bell was recovered due to the risk of looting of the shipwreck site, which was discovered in 2022. “The wreck of the ship is a hallowed war grave and is the last resting places for many of the 64 men who were lost in the sinking,”.

https://news.usni.org/2024/02/12/relic-recovered-from-u-s-destroyer-lost-in-wwi

1000 tons of greyhound when she got going I'd imagine.

"Just before it entered World War I, the US Navy began mass producing destroyers, eventually laying keels for 273 Caldwell-, Wickes- and Clemson-class “flush deckers.” These second-generation ships mounted twelve torpedo tubes, four 4-inch guns, a single 3-inch anti-aircraft gun and some light machine guns on a 1,190-ton, 314-foot hull. Only a few were placed in commission in time before the end of the war, but all were delivered by September 1922. Although they proved reliable in service, they lacked a large cruising radius and were much more numerous than the navy needed in peacetime, so more than half were soon mothballed while development funding was diverted elsewhere.

Destroyer development...

https://destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/introduction/

Soldats are always the pawns.....

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231219-the-ww1-christmas-truce-the-war-for-that-moment-came-to-a-standstill

I wish you all well....

The Ballard expeditions latest video shows the identification of the IJN flagship carrier Akagi.

The Akagi was hit with a 1000 pound bomb which ignited the fuel in the main hanger. The raging fires were unstoppable and she was abandoned.

4 torpedos were fired at her in the morning, each from a different IJN destroyer to stop her falling in to enemy hands.

There are some very good vids of the other carnage that befell the antagonists. Well worth a browse.

https://nautiluslive.org/video/2023/09/17/first-visual-survey-ijn-akagi-chicheng-historic-battle-midway-shipwreck

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Akagi

Archaeological divers have recovered human remains from the wreck of a U.S. bomber that crashed near the Mediterranean island of Malta in May 1943.

Scientific analysis by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has confirmed the remains are those of U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Sgt. Irving R. Newman, who was 22 years old when the aircraft — a B-24 Liberator based in Libya — suffered engine trouble and was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing raid over the southern tip of Italy.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/divers-recover-us-airmans-remains-from-wwii-bomber-wreck-near-malta

Being able to see through the trees, Lidar has revealed previously unknown emplacements.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-drones-reveal-secrets-world-war.html

Sorry about the title misspelling kokoda

65 Australian soldiers were buried in temporary graves in 1942 at Templeton's Crossing, among more than 600 soldiers killed in the Kokoda campaign.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/australian-wwii-soldiers-partial-remains-recovered-kokoda-track/102640070

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templeton%27s_Crossing

Lest we forget

This is bigger than Ben Hur

Things seem to have certainly turned upside down for the Russian MOD in the last 24 hours...

Seems that Pregosian (fk knows how to spell it) is taking matters into his own hands...

Shoigu definately thinks he should have pushed him out a 6th story window months ago...

Or is it a Pregosian and Putler plan to create scapegoats and pull out of Ukraine with some dignity because he was given the wrong information...

Interesting times for Russia and its future...... hopefully whatever happens they keep the finger off the red button...

HMS Triumph

https://nypost.com/2023/06/08/hms-triumph-submarine-that-went-missing-in-world-war-ii-is-found/

Service History...

https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3488.html

Crikey.... it was that staged a blind man could see it.....

Now where did I put my cane......

Tell em he's dreamin

Naval History and Heritage Command has confirmed the identity of a wrecked submarine off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, as the lost USS Albacore (SS 218).

Lost at sea on Nov. 7, 1944.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-confirms-location-of-lost-wwii-sub-uss-albacore

Like Lidar from the air, the modern Sonar abilities are able to map the undersea floor in greater detail.

The Irish sea has been scanned and more wrecks found and identified.

Underwater archaeology.....

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/496-2301/digs/11045-digs-irish-sea-shipwrecks

Playing a game of CC and a flail tank came trundling around the corner...

Which got me thinking why are they not still used for mine clearing..

I have seen all these new fan dangled mine clearers but surely the flail would be cheaper in every respect..

Cost and simplicity..... just an observation.

I will ask one....

Do you think that the western Allies after investing so much in Ukraine would let Ukraine lose...


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