On the fateful night of June 10, 1943, a B-17F Flying Fortress known as “Black Jack” took off from Seven Mile Aerodrome near Port Moresby on a bombing mission against the heavily defended Japanese airfields at Rabaul in New Britain. Little did the 10-man crew know that the mission would be Black Jack’s last, or that within eight hours the aircraft would be lying on the ocean floor off Papua New Guinea, not to be seen again for 43 years.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:39:05 +0000
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