Map depicting the last sighted location of B-24D Liberator 42-72789
At 1:30pm last seen by B-24 pilot 2nd Lt. Nels T. Moody with damage on the waist section but did not appear to be in trouble on a heading of 225° on a course bound for Dobodura at an altitude of 6,000' over the Solomon Sea roughly 60 miles southeast of Wide Bay at roughly Lat 6° 30' S Long 152° E. Credit: Missing Air Crew Report 997 (MACR 997) page 11 Date: October 12, 1943
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