Never did find those Harleys and a P 38 in a cave with a steel door,(!) locked (!!)near Milne Bay. Drat !
Nor the boxed P 39s up the Cape, similar storage. Bugger !
Alas, the records show what we know..a definitive number of beached and busted P 39s. That's all, folks..
Emi tasol.
Fascinating thing when hunting a/c relics is the number of people who know a cousin who had a mate who new a bloke who saw in 1941. as above...somewhere, but no precise location ie near Iron Range.
Still, the east Cape beaches are really something, and we do have to have one last dig on the inverted P39 of 2nd Lt Robert Love, who was killed in the landing accident. RIP Robert aged 22.
Probably an F model but no serial , manufacturers or tail No .yet found...