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Source Collection
90th Bombardment Group records, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
ms.0358.055.016.001
Description
In May 1943, a group of U.S. Air Force officers and Australian Air Force officers volunteered to search out the site and cause of a B-24 bomber crash in Japanese controlled Papua New Guinea near the of Bena Bena. L to r: Lt. Norman Wilde (Austrian Air Force); Lt. Spiffy Wells; Capt. Frank McLaughlin; Maj. Ed Imparato; Lt. Kenneth Bandy.
Date Created
2024
Date
1943 May
Recommended Citation
"Bena Bena expedition group, 1943" (2024). Images. 16.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-90thbg1/16
Keywords
Bena Bena (Papua New Guinea); World War II; 90th Bombardment Group
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