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Re: B-24s on Biak Island
Posted by george on Thu Dec 13, 2001 03:30:28 PM
In reply top B-24s on Biak Island posted by Ron Henry on Thu Dec 13, 2001 02:18:39 PM
: Many yrs ago, let's say in the 1960s, there was a rumour t
: hat there was a very large quantity (maybe 100s) of Libera
: tors left derelict, at end of WW2, on Biak - now part of I
: ndonesia, I think. I'm quite happy to accept that there's
: nothing there now, but I sometimes wonder if the rumour *e
: ver* had any fact in it?
:
: Cheers.
Ron,
I posted a request a couple of weeks ago on this very subject, as well as the graveyard of our planes left on Morotai til 1988. Tony said Elliott was my source, so I posted for his help. No response from him, though. I can tell you that close to 1,000 B-24s were there, scrapping began in the mid-50s and went on til at least 1960. My question was since most of the island is apparently off-limits to outsiders, what was the chance that a few airframes still exist? I have an amazing picture of another graveyard on Biak, taken in 1948, showing over 200 A-20s, P-47s, P-38s, P-61s and DC-3s.