Frank Egimbari
Papua New Guinea Wreck Tec

Frank Egimbari lives near Dobodura Airfield in Oro Province in Papua New Guinea.

Wartime Recollections
His father, the chief of the Dobodura area became frustrated by the heavy fighting and all the foreign soldiers on his land and disrupting their lives. He dressed in full tribal gear, and took his war spears and went to a road and hailed the nearest U.S. Army jeep, where he told the officer that he wanted the soldiers to leave. The officer told his sergeant to "get rid of him" and he was unceremoniously shot dead. After the war, there were many abandoned aircraft at the area airfields. And, he remembers how his mother warned the children not to stray too far away because 'there might be Japanese soldiers waiting to get them".

War Wreck Discoveries
In the past decades, he has been responsible for discovering many WWII wrecks in the area, including several significant aircraft wrecks, including A-24 Dive Bomber and P-38H "Japanese Sandman II". He has collaborated with David Pennefather and John Douglas.