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Re: B-24s on Biak Island
Posted by Elliott on Fri Dec 14, 2001 12:12:45 PM
In reply top B-24s on Biak Island posted by Ron Henry on Thu Dec 13, 2001 02:18:39 PM
Sorry folks, it's all true - nothing left. You may get lucky and find something in the interior, but you would be very lucky indeed if it was intact. I would think Morotai was off-limits when Darby wrote his book - it is difficult to get there today - in the 60s and 70s there was a lot of insurrection going on out there.
: 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.