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Wartime History
Force landed or was abandoned at Bootless Bay. Possibly, this wing is from P-40E 41-5313.
Wreckage
Wing remained on the beach until the at least the late 1970s.
Jack Mierzejewski remembers:
"I remember a barbecue near Bootless Bay, just off
the airport at Port Moresby. There was an entire P-40 wing on the beach,
in pretty poor shape for sure, because it was washing around in the
surf. But I remember lifting it and seeing the star and meatball still
preserved on the undersurface!"
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Last Updated
October 1, 2009
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