USN
STAG-1
Mission History
Took off from Green
Island (Nissan Island) on one of the October 1944 missions. It crashed into jungle and did not detonate,
somewhere near Lakunai.
Wreckage
Discovered in 1966 by Stephen Simpson, who was taken to the
site be a local. Nearby was the unexploded bomb. Later, the locals set
fire to the wreckage, destroying it and blowing the bomb up, fearing
evil spirits from this airplane without a cockpit.
TDR
