The Mission Of Rescuing A Crashed B-25 Bomber In New Guinea Finding Ways Back To The Wreck The Fighter Wreck

Rescuing fellow soldiers in the enemy-held territory is full of dangers and risks but it's always a brave act. Grab this book today to follow the author back to the place of an Allied fighter crash landing and find out more about that event.

On Thursday 27 July 1944 a B-25 bomber of the 418th Night Fighter Squadron is on a routine mission over the waters surrounding New Guinea near the Birds Head Peninsula. The crew sights a Japanese schooner and starts their attack run, flying low and fast over the water. The attack succeeds but the bomber is hit and its pilot, 2Lt Ira M. Barnett, cannot fly it back to base. He decides on a crash landing in a remote swamp area, some 300 miles behind enemy lines. Barnett puts the plane down safely, air gunner Harold "Chief" Tantaquidgeon takes over command in the swamp.

A rescue team, led by Dutch 2nd Lieutenant Louis Rapmund and Australian Army Captain 'Mac' Gillespie sets out from the island of Biak to save the crew. Flown in by Catalina flying boat, river Kais is their only way in and out of this green hell of jungle and swamp. For three weeks their small group of Allied soldiers use the Kais to fight both their human enemy and nature to find the crew and bring them back to safety.
This is an extraordinary story of survival and heroism of Allied soldiers and airmen; American, Australian, Dutch and Indonesian, supported by the local Papua's.