Control yoke from Yamamoto's G4M1 Betty 2656 at MacArthur Museum
The control yoke is displayed in a glass case with the caption "Betty Bomber Control Column of the Betty bomber carrying Admiral Isoruko Yamamoto when he was shot down by American P-39s Lightnings near Moila Point, Bougainville on April 18, 1943. Kindly donated by Lieutenant Colonel Tom Guivarra, Australian Army Aviation Corps." At the rear of the case is Pacific Aircraft Wrecks page 34 with two photos of the crash site taken by Charles Darby in 1972 and
trench art of a P-38 Lightning made by LCPL Fred Whitbread.
Credit: Justin Taylan Date: June 2, 2014
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