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Aircraft History Built by Nakajima. Uncoded serial number unknown (three digits). Delivered to the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) as Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber Donryu / Ki-49-II (Helen) manufacture number unknown (four digits). Wartime History Assigned to an unknown Hiko Sentai (Flying Regiment) in New Guinea. No known tail code or markings. Mission History During 1943 or early 1944 this Helen force landed in kunai grass near the Yupna River (Jupna River) inland from the north coast of New Guinea. Wreckage This Helen remains in situ in kunai grass near the Yupna River (Jupna River). The center section was burned either during the force landing or was destroyed by the crew or by kunai grass fires in the vicinity. Charles Darby adds: "The Jupna River area is between Saidor and the Huon Peninsula. The Ki-49 was on the plains about an hour's walk in from the coast, and more or less directly seaward of the mountain village of Tep Tep (Teptep). I have an uncomfortable feeling that the Jupna Plains Ki-49 was one of the airframes that I couldn't identify. It looked great in early-1970s aerial photos that various people showed me, but when I walked out to it in 1974 I found that, as usually happens with aircraft left in open areas, it had been so badly damaged by grass fires that all markings had been destroyed and the structure was heavily corroded as a result of the absence of the protective coatings that had been removed by the fires, even though those fires had done relatively little damage to the basic structure of the aircraft (from an appearance viewpoint, not from an airworthiness viewpoint)." References Thanks to Charles Darby, John Douglas and Scott Nicholls for additional information Contribute
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