This is the wreckage of an SBD-III lost on a training mission.
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one hour of walk, we arrive on the site of the crash and find the
engine of the plane. I do not know if this plane is known or unknown.
But on the map that I have, it was not situated. |
An other view of the engine. We find only on engine and we though it was a hunter plane. | Far away, we found a wheel at position S17°32,101 E168°14,107. We think that the trees catch the wheel first, just before the crash of the plane, because the wheel are far away from the other parts of the plane. |
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The place of the crash covered a great area. The plane exploded in many small scrap of metal. Behind, you can see one of the 6 machines gun 12.7mm. The position is S 17°32,126 E168°14,146
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We are near the helix. Jerome investigated a bullet. You can see an other machine gun and full up bullets on the ground. | Four .50 caliber machine guns. |
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| We found a curious part
in stainless, a kind of handle [bomb shackle] |
It was a bomb shackle |
These bullet were not
use. You can see "L C 42" at the back. Many hundred of
these were on the ground. |
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| Part of the American Star
marking on a part of the plane. |
Probably, it the rest of the cockpit of the pilot. | We were near the tail. Camille show us, the "hook" that help the plane to landing on the aircraft carrier. |
