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"Le pape est mort, un nouveau pape est appelé à Rainier
Araignée, quel drôle de nom pour un pape" (c'est vrai, moi, j'aurais dit Albert !)
USN Nicolas Duprey 2001 | Pilot Lt(jg) Liston Rhodes Comer Gunner ARM3/c James Owen Walker, 6641856 Crashed May 12, 1942 Aircraft History The serial number 40-6603 might be associated with this aircraft. Fuselage number 918. Wartime History Crashed into Mount Mou on New Calidonia during a training mission. Wreckage Wreck site includes parts of the wings, and parts of fuselage. Contribute Information |
USMC MAG 25 VMJ-253 Nicolas Duprey 2001 | Pilot Major Skip Kimball (KIA) Crew Chief Charlie Mottram (Ohio) (KIA) Passenger 6 passengers (KIA) Crashed October 9, 1942 Aircraft History Construction Number 4437. US Navy Bureau Number 01981. Wartime History Crashed into Ousassio Hill after a night take off from Tontouta Airport. One engine failed, the crew of eight were all killed. Ousassio Hill was then named Mount Kimball after that accident, and a park was named Mottram park in the home town of the crew chief in Ohio. Thereare around 20 inscriptions (from the left stab to the door) presumablyfrom passengers. Among them are: "USS Ibex", a tanker ship. "JoanHarlow" the actress. Three are names and addresses. Nicolas Duprey adds in 2001: "Three of the inscriptions contain an address, we have send letters to these adress since july, only one of the 3 letter came back. One is: Carol J. McCutcheon 3940 - 4th Ave Sacramento California" References Thanks to Nicolas Duprey for this information, photographs and research. Thanks to Ewan Stevenson for Bureau Number and Construction Number. |
USAAF 13th AF [URL=http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-39/42-4285/wing.jpg] [/URL]Nicolas Duprey, 2001 | Pilot Col. Cook Crashed March 23, 1943 (?) Aircraft History Assigned to the 13th AF during August / September 1942. Stricken from USAAF inventory on March 23, 1943. Mission History Took off on a training mission. Crashed near Ouassio Hill near Nouméa on New Caledonia. It could have crashed on or several months before March 23, 1943, before Army paperwork caught up. References Thanks to Nicolas Duprey for additional information |
French Navy 9S Aeronavale [URL=http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/c-54/44-9848/degaulle.html] [/URL] Nicholas Duprey 2002 | Pilot 1st Lt. Celton Crew CPO Crusson Crew CPO Podlesnik Crew CPO Decoudu Crew CPO Lefurau Crew CPO Wullaert Crew CPO Gavard-Pivet Crashed January 21, 1982 Aircraft History This aircraft was given to French General Charles De Gaulle, by US President Harry S. Truman in 1945. Used by De Gaulle when he visited New Caledonia in 1956. Afterwards, it was based at La Tontouta Airport in 1966 (to the flotilla 9S of the Aeronavale, the French Navy). Mission History On January 21, 1982, this aircraft was on a "touch and go" training. It accidentally flew into Mt Kokoreta (1,002m), at 9:04 pm. Wreckage Can be see from the main road from Nouméa, just before La Tontouta Airfield. Nicholas Duprey visited the site in 2002: "We left Noumea at 0830am, just before La Tontouta we turn right to the Bangou tribe. After the tribe there is an little chapel, at the foot of the mountain. Here we must walk to the wreck. We follow a track until a little field, after we leave the civilization, and we enter in a dry forest, not high, but thick, with long, sharp, herbs, and small trees covers by small red ants which fall on us, each time we hit theses trees with our sabers." Contribute Information | C-54 Photo |
Jacques HM Cohen a écrit:Le mont Saint Hélène quand il se tenait tranquille?....
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