Wirui Emergency Strip
 formerly, a mission airstrip, it was expanded and improved by the Japanese, who mainly used it as an emergency runway strip. Today, the field is abandoned and overgrown. Bomb craters still pot-mark the area. The road runs parallel to the old runway.

  Scant wreckage of a crashed Japanese twin engine aircraft is on the road side of the airstrip. Nothing much is left, other than the engines and a few bits of aluminum. The rest have long since been scrapped or carted away.

Although there are only scant parts of wreckage left, the landing strut and engines match those of the Ki-49 Helen

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