USAAF
5th AF
8th FG
July 13, 1944 Sgt Uling
Pilot Lt. McWhorter
Force Landed July 13, 1944
Wartime History
Force landed southwest of Kupiano. McWhorter was taken to Hood Point with the aid of natives and missionaries from which an L-5 of the 25th Liaison Squadron piloted by T/Sgt Walter G Conrad flew him back to Port Moresby on July 20th.
Wreckage
Bruce Hoy visited the wreck May 3, 1981. A portion of the nose of this aircraft was used to repair the nose
section, recovered off of P-38G 42-12847 this
nose was then installed onto
P-38F 42-12647 displayed at the PNG Museum.
Bruce Hoy (former PNG
Museum curator) reports:
"We drove down to [42-66738] and
removed one section of skin on the left side of that aircraft (and at
the same time I removed the aircraft's serial plate, still attached inside
the cockpit), as [ P-38G 42-12847's
nose ] was damaged in that
area."
References
Thanks to Bruce Hoy and Keith Hopper for additional information.
P-38
