Substantial B-26 Marauder remains, New Guinea

FlyingFortB17 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:55 pm **Posts:** 217

Anyone have a clue to what B-26 this is? It looks as if they are in the process of recovery. Article doesn't give much clue. Sorry for the over-sized pic.

From: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/09/outsiders_join_search_for_amer.html

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:51 pm

This one I think

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-26/40-1496.html

Been discussed here before if you can be bothered doing a search

fiftycal · **Joined:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:20 am **Posts:** 306

its near black cat, but justin taylan has been there so its unfortunately too hard to recover now

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:05 pm

How cool is that! Finally a buried aircraft story with some hard physical evidence.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:21 pm

the ground must have a high "water table"!!

TAdan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:15 pm

Pat Carry wrote:

How cool is that! Finally a buried aircraft story with some hard physical evidence.

That's exactly what I was thinking, lol. sure would be nice if it was excavated, preserved, and displayed somewhere.

JohnH · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:43 pm

Whoa!!!! What a great find !!!

43-2195 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:37 am

Lt Hatch put "DIXIE" down in a river bed. It has silted up in the 70 years since. When JPAC first visited, only the tail fin and 250CE were above the mud. It's no where near Black Cat (which is in the mountains). And it was dug out by the villagers for JT to take the picture.

DoraNineFan · **Joined:** Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:37 pm **Posts:** 672

43-2195 wrote:

Lt Hatch put "DIXIE" down in a river bed. It has silted up in the 70 years since. When JPAC first visited, only the tail fin and 250CE were above the mud. It's no where near Black Cat (which is in the mountains). And it was dug out by the villagers for JT to take the picture.

I'm sure that he told them that it was worth $20 Million also.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:51 am

DaveM2,
This subject has been discussed before, but I don't recall seeing that image of
the B-26 unearthed like that. Be a little easy on the guy!

Jerry

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:23 am

Jerry O'Neill wrote:

DaveM2,
This subject has been discussed before, but I don't recall seeing that image of
the B-26 unearthed like that. Be a little easy on the guy!

Jerry

Jerry

Oh, I didn't mean anything by it - more that it is quite a chore to search...

Dave

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