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Lockheed P-38 Lightning/42-66905


Serial #: 42-66905
Construction #: 1417
Civ. Registration:
  None
Model: P-38H-5-LO
Name:
  Japanese Sandman II
Status: Derelict
Last info: 1988
  History:
Delivered to USAAF as 42-66905, 19??.
- Forced landing in swamp near Dobodura, PNG, Dec. 4, 1943.
- Abandoned in place.
- Flew as Japanese Sandman II/26.
National Museum, Port Moresby, PNG, Nov. 1978-1988.
- Not recovered.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page
Photo Source(s):
None.

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