Scrap Yard In New Guinea

[Second Air Force]

I can't believe I found that photo so fast! Just lucky this morning. I sure wish I had some bomb rack parts from these forlorn birds. Notice that all the propellers are missing but engines intact.

[Jesse C.]

Wow, I wonder if there are any pics of this from the ground and if who ever broke them down later took any pics? Think there might be a Japanese photo album somewhere with recorded images of this?

Nothing but questions!

I'd heard stories about that place but I never truly believed them.

Wow...

[Second Air Force]

I just found the text to go with the B-24 photo. I searched for this picture for almost 35 years. I saw it when I was a youngster and several years ago began hunting down the right issue. A friend at work said that he could find it in his collection, and sure enough, the next day he brought the magazine in! Also note the Wewak information.

Scott

[daveymac82c]

So, let me get this straight. All those airplanes are gone now, with the exception of ones that were burried. And do I also understand correctly that after the war all these planes were brought together to the same place for scrapping? Or are there other smaller sites similar to this?

In my dreaming mind I still consider the idea that there might be a small island out there, with a small airfield, that at the end of the war had some airplanes pushed into the bushes instead of removed. I also dreams about barns in the middle of miles of open fields that have some sort of airplane in them. I imagine there are a bunch of you with the same day-dream.

Anyways, back to the topic. Thank you for posting the pictures and the dialogue has been pretty good.

Of course there will be some kind of politics involved with this topic, like mentioned before, when politics turns to bashing, it doesn't belong on the message board. Even though, some comments may be legitimate, the way it wa worded became offensive.

Cheers,

David

[T-6G Pilot]

No other country should have a right to them. Thats american tax payer money there. Only us USA'ers should have had a right to them, as scrap or otherwise. And I'm sure such waste continues as we speak.
Yeah real sad.

i agree that it is a massive waste of 1940's tax payers $ and i'm certain it continues to this day. while it isn't my $ i don't like to see it wasted.

as for only USA'ers having a right to them i'm all for that, on the condition that before you claim them you take back all of your unexploded ordinance left around the world over the last 60 years, clean up your nuclear testing sites in the pacific etc, take back and clean up after all your depleated uraniun projectiles sprayed everywhere your country has fought in the last 16? years.
while your at it close your military bases on foreign soil, take back your softdrinks, fast food chains, most of your music produced in the last 30+ years, all of your big budget movies, your TV shows, your drug culture, your gun culture, all the weapons given to "friends" so they could become enemies 10 years later.
don't forget your GM food and modified seeds. make your drug companies release thier grip on drugs designed to help save people. take the conditions off your aid to 3rd world countrys.
while we are on the topic feel free to take back nearly every car produced post ww2, subsidised grains etc.
oh i almost forgot your porrnn and it's surrounding culture

do this and sure most countrys in the world would be happy for you give the rights to the WW2 stuff you left littering the world (even though it was generaly signed over to the countrys where it sat).

end rant now.

henry.

btw feel free to attack australias actions over the last few years, i do.
i know this very computer i'm typing my rant on is based of stuff designed in the US, it's a nice tool but without it, i might get a bit more done.

After a comment like this, it makes me think that I'd like to have back the thousands of American lives lost on Guadalcanal. Without those and others lost in the Pacific it is very likely the Japenese would have invaded your country and the world would be a dramatically different place.

A simple "thank you" would suffice from some of the millions of people the US and Australia (and others of course) have helped liberate from oppression and tyranny, but I'm okay not to get it. I'd just rather not be told time and again by misguided people with the advantage of 60 years of modified history what a piece of crap country we live in.

So endith my rant.

To the editor, I apologize in advance for keeping the political discussion going, I am simply too compelled not to respond.

[bilwor]

Django,
The Location of the P-61 is as follows: From lower left corner of photo go up about 1/3 and look just to the right.
bill word

[Django]

Got it, thanks Bill.

There were P-61s in the pacific that weren't black?

[Chad Veich]

Looks to be a second Black Widow, sans booms and engines, directly above the first.

[Django]

I think you're right.

[mustangdriver]

I hear you T-6.

[Allan Horyn]

It also looks very much like a third P-61 underneath the port wing of the A-20 that the first.

[henry]

in self defense, for my opinion on those who lost thier lives fighting in WW2:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=11891

pm me if you want to express your dislike. i'm sure most would rather just read/learn about the AC.

henry.

[mustangdriver]

I would love to see an A-20, and a P-61 in the air.

[T33driver]

i'm sure most would rather just read/learn about the AC.

henry.

Circle gets the square Hank!