Pacific Wrecks Forum

No, not interested in salvaging whatsoever. I have just spent a fair amount of time in that part of New Guinea in an entirely different capacity (scientific research), and that combined with a fascination with Zeros led me to a curiousity about Babo and other Japanese airfields. On another note, the...

Pacific Wrecks gives the location of Babo airstrip in western New Guinea as Lat 2? 32' 60S Long 133? 25' 0E, but this doesn't seem as likely to me as another spot nearby where there definitely was a Japanese airstrip. The location of that site, which I have visited and is easily visible as such (bom...