Aircraft Wastelands - Indonesia 1950's

[Swiss Mustangs]

received this link from Marc Koelich from Indonesia......

several shots of an A-20 wreck, a C-47, a B-24 and some more junk.... all in color....

take a deep breath and click here:

http://www.helianthusproductions.com/crackups.html

also check the main page.... some very interesting stories and photos !

Martin

and yes - in the first two photos at left, we have a P-51 carcass....

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[gary1954]

Man....I would love to be out for a hike, and stumble across a find like these....

[daveymac82c]

incredible pictures. Looking at some of those pictures there might be some hope that some of those evil looking bushes gobbled up a plane or two.... Maybe they're still there.

Or, possible there was a cave near by and the B-24 was rolled into with its wings on the ground next to the fuselage. Still waiting to be discovered. Hopefully nobody will call it a Zero.

All joking aside, those are some fine pictures and it's really too bad to think that they were all probably destroyed in the following years/decades after the photos were taken.

Cheers,

David McIntosh

[airnutz]

...there might be some hope that some of those evil looking bushes gobbled up a plane or two.... Maybe they're still there.

...all probably destroyed in the following years/decades after the photos were taken.

If these photos were birds at Morotai, then I'm really going to ruin your day. I'm using my memory
here..so be careful, some of these birds may have survived as late as the 80's or mid-90's. The story
goes, that a Japanese scrapper got the contract to salvage the materiel at the old airbase there in that
time period.(How's that for irony?)

You can search the WIX archives with Morotai as keyword. Former member Harvard IV was wrapped up
in those discussions quite a bit and he went to Babo, but I don't remember if he made it to Morotai.
One of our Oz or Nz friends, IIRC passed the scrapper story to us as well as the base is still inaccessble to
the public these days by the gubmint.

Let's have one "collective retch" and get it over with...

[george]

Is this an A-20? You can zoom in more, and then magnify.

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=2.04088&l ... =0&m=a&v=2

[tom d. friedman]

great stuff!! especially interesting for me as my dad was an infantry company commander on morotai, his outfit protected the army air force base perimeter from japanese infiltrators. i looked at those pics & couldn't help thinking that my dad could have walked those very areas in 1945!!

[tom d. friedman]

old harvard IV did go to morotai, & brought me back some sand for loaning him a book he wanted to read about the island. unfortunately most of the planes were smelted in a scrap drive by the local government their in the late 70's early 80's.