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Part I tells about bird hunters on Papua New Guinea finding remains of a large plane about 1980, and about Bruce Hoy--the first curator of the Aviation Maritime and War Branch of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea--who was obsessed with finding remains of about 350 aircraft downed there between 1942 and 1945.Hoy, who helped me with research about the loss of Dale Wilson's B-25 there in late 1943, collected MACRs (Missing Air Crew Reports) and connected with the Central Identification Lab based in Hawaii, formed to ID Vietnam war casualties until relations soured with Vietnam. Focus turned to WWII war dead.A team, including the two bird hunters, located and identified the B-24, mapping out an area to begin to identify the human remains and artifacts with X-numbers.Part II details the fascinating but tedious forensic work of identifying the 22 men in 1982 who were aboard the B-24, including the pilot, Robert Allred, who was from Des Moines.Part III was Allred's story. He'd married and finished at Des Moines College of Law when he joined the AAF in 1942, sent to the 22nd Bombardment Group in New Guinea. The plane was ferrying a new-in-country B-25 crew from Port Moresby to Nadzab when lost in March 1944.I learned about this book from my son's second and third grade teacher, Millie LeCroy. She and her twin sister had sung at the Wedding of Bob and Juanita Allred in 1938. Juanita remarried in 1948, to a classmate of Millie and her sister. (Millie's husband, Don LeCroy, flew 53 B-25 missions in New Guinea.)The book was valuable research to try to learn what had happened to my mother's brother, Dale Wilson, who was lost on a B-25 with five others in 1943. Correspondence with Curator Bruce Hoy was especially helpful.This book is so valuable historically, but also such a poignant human story.
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Part I tells about bird hunters on Papua New Guinea finding remains of a large plane about 1980, and about Bruce Hoy--the first curator of the Aviation Maritime and War Branch of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea--who was obsessed with finding remains of about 350 aircraft downed there between 1942 and 1945.
Hoy, who helped me with research about the loss of Dale Wilson's B-25 there in late 1943, collected MACRs (Missing Air Crew Reports) and connected with the Central Identification Lab based in Hawaii, formed to ID Vietnam war casualties until relations soured with Vietnam. Focus turned to WWII war dead.
A team, including the two bird hunters, located and identified the B-24, mapping out an area to begin to identify the human remains and artifacts with X-numbers.
Part II details the fascinating but tedious forensic work of identifying the 22 men in 1982 who were aboard the B-24, including the pilot, Robert Allred, who was from Des Moines.
Part III was Allred's story. He'd married and finished at Des Moines College of Law when he joined the AAF in 1942, sent to the 22nd Bombardment Group in New Guinea. The plane was ferrying a new-in-country B-25 crew from Port Moresby to Nadzab when lost in March 1944.
I learned about this book from my son's second and third grade teacher, Millie LeCroy. She and her twin sister had sung at the Wedding of Bob and Juanita Allred in 1938. Juanita remarried in 1948, to a classmate of Millie and her sister. (Millie's husband, Don LeCroy, flew 53 B-25 missions in New Guinea.)
The book was valuable research to try to learn what had happened to my mother's brother, Dale Wilson, who was lost on a B-25 with five others in 1943. Correspondence with Curator Bruce Hoy was especially helpful.
This book is so valuable historically, but also such a poignant human story.
Hoy, who helped me with research about the loss of Dale Wilson's B-25 there in late 1943, collected MACRs (Missing Air Crew Reports) and connected with the Central Identification Lab based in Hawaii, formed to ID Vietnam war casualties until relations soured with Vietnam. Focus turned to WWII war dead.
A team, including the two bird hunters, located and identified the B-24, mapping out an area to begin to identify the human remains and artifacts with X-numbers.
Part II details the fascinating but tedious forensic work of identifying the 22 men in 1982 who were aboard the B-24, including the pilot, Robert Allred, who was from Des Moines.
Part III was Allred's story. He'd married and finished at Des Moines College of Law when he joined the AAF in 1942, sent to the 22nd Bombardment Group in New Guinea. The plane was ferrying a new-in-country B-25 crew from Port Moresby to Nadzab when lost in March 1944.
I learned about this book from my son's second and third grade teacher, Millie LeCroy. She and her twin sister had sung at the Wedding of Bob and Juanita Allred in 1938. Juanita remarried in 1948, to a classmate of Millie and her sister. (Millie's husband, Don LeCroy, flew 53 B-25 missions in New Guinea.)
The book was valuable research to try to learn what had happened to my mother's brother, Dale Wilson, who was lost on a B-25 with five others in 1943. Correspondence with Curator Bruce Hoy was especially helpful.
This book is so valuable historically, but also such a poignant human story.
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