Pacific Wrecks Forum

just received this update and thought I would pass it along. [quote Dear fellow Marines, Veterans, Ladies and Gentlemen, On Saturday, 26 June 08, I had the pleasure and honor of giving a quick historical brief about former MCAS Ewa to the Oahu Veterans Council. It was a real honor to be in that comp...

Please feel free to pass these contact details along to other Fellow Marines and those interested in Dec 7th Military history. Write and e-mail the people below and let them know how you feel. I truly believe that preserving MCAS Ewa Field is very important for the History of Hawaii and the sacrific...

Navy Land Swap Deal With Hunt Development opens up Historic December 7, 1941 Battlefield for Destruction! Nina Wu, HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN : "With the expected transfer of 499 acres of U.S. Navy land in Kalaeloa to Ford Island Properties LLC, a master plan drafted by a state agency charged with redev...

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozcrashes/act07.htm The Herald 13 August 1940 MINISTERS DIE IN CRASH -------------- TEN VICTIMS OF R.A.A.F. DISASTER ---------------------- Army Chief Included ------------------- From Our Special Representative CANBERRA, Tuesday. - Ten people, including three Federal Cab...

http://www.awm.gov.au/collections/stories/hudson.asp Stories from the collections Lockheed Hudson A16-105 and Ray Kelly Early in 2001, the Australian War Memorial acquired a Second World War Lockheed Hudson (A16-105). Since then, curatorial staff have been trying to contact crew members they had ide...

http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/aircraft/Hudson.cfm A16-211 survived Milne Bay and received a complete overhaul before transferring to No.2 Squadron flying out of Millingimbi in the Northern Territory. Together with four other Hudsons, A16-211 carried out an armed reconnaissance to Maikor and Taber...

http://www.beaufortrestoration.com.au/ This aircraft was handed over to the Royal Australian Air Force on 29 October 1942, who assigned it the serial number A9-141. It finished its service life on 26 April 1944, seeing active service defending Australia during this time. With the dedication of a sma...

http://www.aarg.com.au/Beaufort.htm The Museum has acquired parts from A9-320 and A9-501 as the basis of its project, and is commencing its first public appeal for fund raising, to assist in further parts acquisition and the eventual restoration and display of the aircraft, to become one of six rema...

Engine failure grounds B-17 19th May 2008 We are sorry that the UK’s only airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress, Sally B is momentarily grounded. Now in her 63rd year, the job of keeping this flying memorial in the air is always hard work and sometimes luck is just not on our side... Over the winter, in re...

http://www.aluminummistress.org/index.htm C-47B-DK, USAAF Serial #43-49531, is a veteran of 3 wars and 55 years of service between two nations, The United States and Israel. She entered service as a Troop Carrier on 28 November 1944 leaving the Oklahoma City factory for Bear Field, Indiana to upload...

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Absolutely first class resources of USMC images here, a lot which are new to me, hours of viewing at:

http://www.historylink101.com/wwII_b-w/ ... index.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-rossi28apr28,0,7674769.story Dick Rossi, 92; Flying Tigers pilot downed 6 Japanese planes By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 28, 2008 Dick Rossi, the Flying Tigers pilot who downed six Japanese planes during World War II and later...

More than 1050 Australians died on the Montevideo Maru. By Max Uechtritz, Editor in Chief Australia's most enduring wartime mystery — and our greatest maritime disaster — may be a step closer to being solved with help from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A total of 1053 Australian soldiers and civilians ...

GALVESTON — Two vintage aircraft, one of them recently restored after 15 years of effort and $2 million, were damaged seriously over the weekend in a ground collision at a Galveston air show, the president of the Lone Star Flight Museum said Monday. A Supermarine Spitfire taxied into the rear of the...