Pacific Wrecks

Close-up view of a American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft cockpit on December 23, 1942. #History #WWII

A Japanese soldier in the Imperial Guards 5th Infantry Regiment armed with a Type 99 short rifle, c. 1943. Despite being a standard issue weapon, clear period photos of them in use are surprisingly hard to find.

実弾確認　#実弾確認

Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force Brewster B-339D fighters and Martin Model 139WH-2 bombers operating against Japanese forces from Java circa January 1942

March 4, 1942: No. 75 Squadron is formed in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at Garbutt Field in Townsville equipped with P-40E Kittyhawk fighters. They will be the first squadron to defend Port Moresby and missions over New Guinea. pacificwrecks.com/unit/raaf/75-s… #RAAF #75Squadron

March 2, 1942: Destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) is scuttled at Surabaya on Java. Later repaired by the Japanese as Patrol Boat No. 102 returned to the Navy as USS DD-224 sunk 1946 as a target. The shipwreck was found in 2024 off California. pacificwrecks.com/ship/usn/DD-22… #Indonesia #USN

February 3, 1942: Lost is B-18 Bolo 36-338 pilot Lt. Col Austin A. Straubel (KIA) shot down by a pair of A6M2 Zeros from Tainan Kōkūtai (Tainan Air Group) over Java. Green Bay Airport is named in honor of the pilot. pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-18/… #Indonesia #Java #Bolo #Zero #Tainan

Type 95 Ha-Gō tank casualties of the Japanese charge across Peleliu Airfield on September 15th 1944 These scenes were captured in original color two days later as US aircraft and artillery continued to pound enemy positions during a battle that would last over two months

January 18, 1942: USS Tutuila (PR-4) stranded at Chungking is decommissioned and her remaining crew flown out. Later, transferred to the Nationalist Chinese and renamed Mei Yuan until scuttled in May 1949. pacificwrecks.com/ship/usn/PR-4.… #USN #USNavy #Chungking

Imperial Japanese Navy ground crews prepare Mitsubishi G3M "Rikko" bombers for takeoff in cold weather at Chitose air base circa early 1941

January 5, 1944: Lost is PB4Y-1P Liberator 32019 pilot Lt. Larren M. Allen on a low level photographic reconnaissance mission over Kwajalein Atoll shot down with 12 crew listed as Missing In Action (MIA). pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/pb4y-… #MIA #MissingInAction #USN #USNavy #Kwajalein

December 7th marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu. Learn more about "a date which will live in infamy" including the planes, midget subs, warship and location involved. pacificwrecks.com/date/1941/12/0… #PearlHarbor #Hawaii #Oahu #USNavy #Japan #OTD

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Join @PacificWrecks live on YouTube WW2TV December 4th at 2:00PM EST for a lecture on the 345th Bomb Group "Air Apaches" that flew the B-25 Mitchell bristling with guns at low level across the Pacific during World War II. youtube.com/watch?v=gchVRN… #History #USAAF #345BG #BookTube

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Join us live on Veterans Day to return a World War II U.S. Army dog tag found in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to the veteran's daughter. youtube.com/live/FxJYYDGSE… #VeteransDay @USArmy #DogTag #LostAndFound #PapuaNewGuinea #PNG

original b&w for the doubters on authenticity.

グラ公描くの楽しい

Join us live on YouTube for an interview with Dave R. Holland, author of "Guadalcanal's Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front". Don't miss the livestream about the book and the battle! 📚 youtube.com/live/kNJkY3WSQ… #LiveStream #Guadalcanal #Author

October 18, 1965: U.S. Army Special Forces Captain Larry Allan Thorne (Lauri Allan Törni) went missing in action as a passenger aboard a South Vietnamese H-34 helicopter. Previously, he served in the Finnish Army and the German Waffen-SS in WWII. pacificwrecks.com/people/veteran… #MIA