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Interesting photos of American and Japanese aircraft remains in current condition.

http://www.missingaircrew.com/yapoct.asp

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Woaw ! That's bad and sad news !

Just compare the photos taken this month with those (link below) taken by P. Gunti not so long ago and you will see how quickly they are deteriorating. And those wrecks at the airport are fully protected by Micronesian law !

http://www.j-aircraft.com/relics/peter_gunti/peters.htm

That's definiteely a point for the "lte's recover them all before it's too late" !

Laurent

great pics. what an adventure!!!! must have taken extra planning & coordination as yap is practically a pimple in the pacific, with nothing else close island wise.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I have been researching my uncle's Missing Air Crew for 20 years. I have always planned to go to Yap and search for the plane therefore, it was very exciting to make the trip the other week. We spent a week traveling the island interviewing Yapese elders, diving the reef, hacking through the jungle, and crawling through mangrove swamps to locate planes. I now need a vacation to recover from my vacation. Although we did not find my uncle's plane, we did find numerous other American crash sites and documented the sites with interviews, pictures, and digital video. I'm already planning a return to Yap next year. I was thrilled to find the Corsair and Hellcats. Please feel free to view pictures of the crash/wreck sites at: http://www.missingaircrew.com/yapoct.asp

We did not spend a lot of time on the Japanese wrecks outside of the wrecks we could locate on the way to find American crash sites. My goal is to document all the American and Japanese planes on Yap over the next few years including finding my uncle's plane in the water of the SE side of the island.

I created and will continue to use my www.MissingAirCrew.com web site to document my search efforts.

I'm looking forward to using this forum as I move forward to post questions.

Thanks,

-Pat

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Patrick T. Ranfranz
Missing Air Crew Project & 307th Bomb Group Historian
www.MissingAirCrew.com & www.307bg.org
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MACR #10023. My uncle, John R. McCullough, 307th Bomb Group, was shot down near Yap Island and declared MIA/KIA on 25 June 44