Pacific Wrecks - Enlargement of 2nd Lt. Kenneth C. Sparks with a P-38 Lightning parked at 14 Mile Drome (Schwimmer) near Port Moresby

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Enlargement of 2nd Lt. Kenneth C. Sparks with a P-38 Lightning parked at 14 Mile Drome (Schwimmer) near Port Moresby
This photograph was used in press release "Nine Jap Planes Each is Score of Two Fifth Air Force Fliers" released March 30, 1943. The plane is possibly P-38G Lightning 42-12715 where a U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer on January 20, 1943 took pictures of 39th Fighter Squadron (39th FS) fighter pilots including Sparks. On March 3, 1943 during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea this plane went Missing In Action (MIA).
Credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps Date: March 1943
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