Pacific Wrecks Forum

Sunday AEST.. on the news tonight. Search team has located the "Kormoran", which they believe is the key to finding the "Sydney". Was only in The Australian newspaper, Feb 29 that the vesel Geosounder was about to commence the search off Geraldton. Looks like the public funding is well spent. It wil...

Was a young pilot taking a P39 to New Guinea in April '42, along with 5 others. Bad weather towards their destination, Horn Is. caused a turn back and with low fuel and nowhere to go, all forced landed. 2 about 10 kms inland from Orford Bay, Cape York, and the other 4 on the beaches. Love was wingma...

Was a young pilot taking a P39 to New Guinea in April '42, along with 5 others. Bad weather towards their destination, Horn Is. caused a turn back and with low fuel and nowhere to go, all forced landed. 2 about 10 kms inland from Orford Bay, Cape York, and the other 4 on the beaches. Love was wingma...

Logged in again, an old Aviator, interested in all things that fly. Have been lucky enough in my past aerial mapping work to see PNG, Solomons, Indonesia and do some wreckology, eg Yamamoto's Betty out of Buin in '68, and many, many wrecks and places in between. Interests WW2 history and aircraft, f...