David,
What do you think of the wheel that the patrol commander saw on top of the wrecked aircraft ?
I would think that in the circumstances the wheels would have been tucked away when the loss of control took place, so I wonder how one of them finished up where it apparently did.
Could the wheel have been moved by someone ? Locals ? The Japanese military ?
Maybe the soldiers of Patrol A1 were not the first people to explore the wrecked plane.