Subject: Wreck of B-29 update and B-24 on Togian Island,must read!!!
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:29:00 +0000
From: "GOH KENG LOON" <gohkl_rmaf@hotmail.com>
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Hello All,

In the latest Flight Journal, it stated that a B-24 attacking the Balikpapan
oil refinery have to make  a force landing on an island and yes i found the
Togian Island was the one it stated . Now on Togian island the B-24 Librator
wreck still in perfect condition.
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http://www.wallacea-divecruise.com/togians.html

And do anyone of you know about which B-24 crashed near labuan island on
Malaysia (North  Borneo) ? Because Mr.Sager said Malaysia Navy divers found
wreck of B-24 with tyres still inflated!!!

In Malaysia there were actually 3 B-29 bombers wrecks found. 1st the
Postville Express in Rembau. Then the Force Z B-29 , and another one was a
B-29 slightly south of ForceZ B-29 near Aur Island.(Paralel to Mersing) . So
that day i assumed the force Z b-29 was the B-29 42-65226  which one" Last
Seen Over Mersing" and now it maybe one of it,either near Kuantan or that
new one near Aur Island.

I located a book wrote by local man in WW2"Terro in Georgetown" ( Penang)
It have the Penang Shimbun News written about the B-29 losses over
Malaya----not accurate b'cos of propaganda but it did have some relationship
about Postville Express..

Taken out from "Penang Shimbun News "

12 Jan 1945
One B-29 which attack Penang yesterday was shot down over Taiping, 3 crews
captured.
2 B-29 was shot dwon, one by Kamikaze

13 Jan 1945
Negeri Sembilan state have 3 B-29 bombers crashed. One on Rembau, 1 port
Dickson, 1 on Kepas. ( * from me: the one on Rembau is postville express)

22 Jan 1945
The Mallaca Goverment will reward anyone who capture downed bomber crews for
$10000. (* it seen the Japs was looking for them!!!)
$1000 will give to anyone who give useful infomation lead to th ecapture.

01 Feb 1945
B-29 attack Penang

16 Feb 1945
1 B-29 was shot down over Singapore

20 Feb 1945
Kuala Lumpur attacked by B-29

24 Feb 1945
Penag and Singapore was attatcked , 1 B-29 was smoked on left wing and was
last seen heading to Mallacca strait, it will not make it.

26 Feb 1945
9 B-29 damaged by our superior defence

3 Mac 1945
1 B-29 shot down, 3 damaged on attacking Singapore

13 Mac 1945
2 B-29 shot down, 1 damaged on attacking Singapore

15 Mac 1945
Kuala Lumpur museum was bombed!!! Victim of the US Bombers.

6 August 1945
P-38 attack Singapore, 2 were shot down

another good thing to see in the Penang Shimbun is :

A Kangaroo which on Japanese site was helping to beat the Allied in pacific.
When major.Kenneth want to take off in his bomb laden bomber, the kangaroo
jump put and hit the plane, the whole plane exploded and destroyed the
airbase!!! ( Hahaha)


11 JANUARY 1945

MALAYA:

(Mission 27) Twenty five of fourty seven B-29's from the 58th BW dispatched
from Calcutta attack two drydock facilities at Singapore (Mission 27); and
fifteen B-29's attack alternates on Penang Island and Mergui, Burma and
various targets of opportunity. They claim 6-1-17 Japanese aircraft. Two
B-29's are lost.

      The two aircraft lost are:

      42-24704 468th Bomb Group A/C Humphries MACR 10879
      3 killed, 4 captured, 4 evaded capture
      42-65226 444th Bomb Group A/C Wilson MACR 10878

      About 42-24704:

      One of the B-29s lost on this raid was 42-24704, piloted by Maj.
      Donald Humphrey of the 793rd Bomb Sqn., 468th Bomb Group. The loss
      is covered in MACR 10879. The plane crashed in Malaya. Several
      crewmembers were killed when the plane was shot down or died of
      injuries shortly after the crash. Several were captured by the
      Japanese and held in a prison in Singapore for the remainder of the
      war. Four, including Humphrey, managed to evade capture and spent
      time with a communist guerrilla band in Malaya (one of these four
      died before the war ended, the others were not able to return to US
      military control until after Japan's surrender).

      Those killed were Lt. Col. Robinson Billings, the mission commander
      (and who was flying as co-pilot); radio operator T/Sgt. M. A.
      Kundrat; and tailgunner S/Sgt R. E. Spratt. Those captured were
      radar observer 1st Lt. M. J. Govednick, CFC gunner S/Sgt J. A.
      MacDonald, left gunner T/Sgt H. D. Gillett, and right gunner T/Sgt
      Ralph Lindley. Those evading were Maj. Humphrey, navigator Capt. C.
      A. Hansman (who died before the war ended), bombardier 1st Lt.
      William F.Duffy, and flight engineer 1st Lt. Ernest C. Saltzman.

      Humphrey's crew, I would note, was part of the original complement
      of the 468th BG and their original aircraft was named "Postville
      Express" after Humphrey's hometown of Postville, Iowa. Humphrey was
      the lead aircraft commander for the first B-29 raid on Japan proper,
      which took place against Yawata in June 1944. This raid is the
      subject of a guest column on Sallyann's site (the column appeared
      around October, 1999, I believe). "Postville Express," the original
      plane, had been returned to the US as war weary in late 1944. To my
      knowledge, 42-24704 was unnamed, though Humphrey in a postwar
      newspaper interview referred to it as the "Postville Express." This
      may have been a case where, had the aircraft remained in service
      longer, it would have carried nose art and been named.

      Note: Lt. Goh Keng Loon of the Malaysian Air Force and Shaharom
      Ahmad have posted information well as recent crash site pictures on
      their WWII history website.

      --------------------------------------------------------------------

      42-65226 wreckage found?

      Researchers looking into a 1941 British naval battle in Malaysia
      recently found a B-29 in the water, and put pictures on their
      website. Meanwhile, Lt. Goh and Mr. Ahmad have determined that it is
      probably 42-65226.

Aircraft that participated in Mission 27:

      AIRCRAFT NICKNAME            GROUP TARGET            STATUS

      42-24503 Nippon Nipper II    40BG  Mergui Harbor,
                                         Burma

      42-24579 Eddie Allen         "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24582 Little Clambert     "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24587 San Antonio Rose    "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-24757 unnamed             "     Penang, Malaya

      42-63374 Tabooma II          "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-63394                     "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-63407 Shoot, You're Faded "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-63455 Genie               "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-65233 Superstitious       "     Mergui Harbor,
               Aloyisious                Burma

      42-24462 Princess Eileen II  444BG Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24580 Undecided           "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-24720 Fu-Kemal-Tu         "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24732 Hore-Zontal Dream   "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-63375 Her Majesty         "     Singapore Kings
                                         Drydock

      42-63378 Fubar               "     Aerodrome

      42-63446 Trojan Spirit       "     Mergui Harbor,
                                         Burma

      42-63451 Black Jack II       "     Singapore         Air Abort

      42-63496 Naughty Nancy       "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-65202 Satan's Angel       "     Jettisoned        Air Abort

      42-65226 unnamed             "     Singapore         MIA Last Seen
                                                           Mersing

      42-24463 unnamed             462BG Penang, Malaya

      42-24475 Hoodlum House II    "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24581 unnamed             "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24800 unnamed             "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24801 Phoney Express      "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24838 unnamed             "     Penang, Malaya

      42-63454 Thunderbird         "     Malaya

      42-63472 unnamed             "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-63502 Long John Silver    "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-63540 unnamed             "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-65230 unnamed             "     Mergui Harbor,
                                         Burma

      42-24469 unnamed             468BG RR Tracks

      42-24471 Chat'nooga Choo     "     Singapore
               Choo

      42-24486 Windy City II       "     Penang, Malaya

      42-24487 Bengal Lancer       "     Singapore         Air Abort

      42-24546 unnamed             "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24678 Kickapoo Lou        "     Singapore
                                         Floating Drydock

      42-24691 Fast Company        "     Oil Storage Area

      42-24704 Gear Box            "     Singapore Kings   Crashed in
                                         Drydock           Malaysia

      42-24714 Robert J Wilson     "     Penang, Malaya

      42-24734 Miss Lead           "     Floating Drydock

      42-63417 Rushin Rotashun     "     Singapore         Air Abort

      42-63445 Craig Comet         "     Penang, Malaya

      42-63464 Belle Ringer        "     Penang, Malaya

I share this to you all and I hope that u all enjoy the research and make a
note to me in gohkl80@yahoo.com.sg or this e-mail. See u all

Have a nice day!!

Lt  Goh KL RMAF

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