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A Military Plane Was Lost In The Jungle For Decades Before It Was Found
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bomber planes played an important role
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in World War II designed for hitting
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targets below these aircraft became the
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fastest and easiest military vehicles to
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maneuver and carry out a mission during
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World War II the U.S manufactured an
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incredible 276 thousand aircraft of
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these around 12 000 were shot down
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many went missing one military plane lay
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in the jumbo for decades before it was
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finally discovered before we start can
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channel Papua New Guinea is known for
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having a lot of greenery according to
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PNG tours about three quarters of the
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country is covered by rainforest most of
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the area remains relatively untouched
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but that all change once a helicopter
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flew overhead the men inside the
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helicopter knew they found something
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historic as the helicopter flew closer
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to the ground the men inside noticed a
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large gray object amongst the plants in
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the jungle as the men landed their
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helicopter they noticed that they
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weren't right next to a crocodile
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infested swamp
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they decided to take a risk and get out
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to go look at the object lying right in
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the middle of the swamp was an enormous
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military plane much to their surprise it
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appeared to be in great shape the men
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were able to figure out that this plane
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was in fact a World War II bomber that
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had been given the nickname swamp ghost
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swamped ghost is actually a huge part of
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military aviation history
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one of the biggest questions people had
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about swamp ghost was why it was
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abandoned in Papua New Guinea David
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talachid Jr a World War II veteran and
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entrepreneur set out to answer that
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question
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talichit was an avid collector of World
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War II tulings with an impressive
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collection of over 120. he set out to
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bring swamp ghost home it was easy for
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talented to figure out that swamp ghost
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was a U.S Air Force bee 17e Flying
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Fortress the plane got its name from a
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journalist who worked for the Seattle
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Times
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he wrote about one in an article and
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said why it's Flying Fortress
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the name just happened to stick collagen
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and Hagen have been salvaging World War
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II planes for several decades so when
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they saw swamp ghost they knew it was
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different from the rest both men
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couldn't understand how the plane had
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been kept in such great condition after
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all these years
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swamp ghost ended up being one of the
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most influential discoveries when it
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came to World War II bombers one of the
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reasons why planes had significant
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advances during World War II was because
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of Franklin D Roosevelt he wanted to
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revolutionize bombers to make them more
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modern
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his goal was to have these military
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vehicles be able to carry sizable
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payloads and travel to remote military
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bases in places such as Alaska Panama
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and Hawaii the
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b-17e was one of the most useful
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military vehicles during World War II
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and the aircraft became operational in
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September of 1941.
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by the time the war reached the end
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there were over 12 000 b 17 planes in
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news
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a little over two-thirds of which were
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the final b 17 G model swamp ghosts
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whereabouts had been a mystery for
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several years it was later revealed that
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the bomber plane was supposed to fly to
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Pearl Harbor from San Francisco just one
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day before the Japanese attacked however
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swamp ghost ended up not traveling with
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its Squadron that day the Japanese ended
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up invading Ravel Papua New Guinea on
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January 23 1942.
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this threatened allied military bases in
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the area including the United States
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about a month later swamp ghost was
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supposed to be dispatched to bond the
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Japanese ships in ravel's Harbor
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unfortunately things didn't go as
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planned by the time the soldiers aboard
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swamp ghost were set to bond the
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Japanese ships they noticed that
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something was wrong the Bombay doors
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became stuck so the soldiers couldn't
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drop the bombs on time they managed to
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Circle back and drop the bombs but
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Japanese forces had seen them and
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started to retaliate
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the issue with the Bombay doors led to a
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massive attack between U.S and Japanese
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forces the Flying Fortress was able to
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claim three out of 12 enemy Fighters
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then the Port Wayne was punctured and
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the plane started to leak fuel the crew
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didn't have much time to figure out
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where they were going to land
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the fuel was leaking and their wing was
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damaged finally the pilot saw the Owen
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Stanley mountains and believed he
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spotted a huge Wheat Field he decided to
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land there but didn't realize the wheat
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field was actually a 10-foot High swamp
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the pilot was able to land swamp ghost
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in the swamp without any of the soldiers
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sustaining an injury
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now the crew was stranded in the middle
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of nowhere these men needed to think on
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their feet about how to escape the swamp
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they spent days wandering around in the
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hot sun without food and were being
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swarmed by mosquitoes since the men were
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surrounded by mosquitoes they ended up
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Contracting malaria luckily they found a
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native who took the soldiers to his
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village the soldiers were then nursed
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back to health and were able to find
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their way back to their base then the
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men got dispatched to a new Tour of Duty
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after the World War II soldiers left the
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swamp swamp ghost was abandoned for
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several decades swamp ghost finished its
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Restoration in 2006 and was brought to
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the United States four years later
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those who want to see swamp ghost for
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themselves can head over to the Pacific
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Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor in
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Hawaii the plane has been there since
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2013.
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there are some plans for the museum to
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restore the bomber for over 5 million
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dollars so it can be displayed on a
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hangar in Fort Island
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