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EXPEDITIONS Flag Reports   REPORT, FLAG 103 Project P-MAN II October 7–24, 2000 By Patrick Scannon FN'96 Expedition Members: Patrick Scannon FN'96 Chip Lambert MN'01 Pam Lambert MN'01 Greg Kovacs FN'01 Reid Joyce Introduction The primary purpose of this expedition was to continue searching for and documenting crash sites and lost crewmembers of U.S. airplanes shot down and reported as missing in action over Palau during WWII, during the period of March 1944 through August 1945. Team member Pat Scannon headed this part. We were able to locate, both on land and in the ocean, three previously undocumented aircraft crash sites. We located one of the U.S. crash sites in the jungles of Babeldaob near Ngatpang. A second crash site was in the jungles of Ngeruktabel and the third was on a coral head at a depth of seven feet, west of Ngatpang. We have not yet completed identification of these aircraft, given the extent of damage; this process is ongoing. We do know that two are U.S. aircraft and are unsure of the third (Ngeruktabel). A fourth crash site (previously found by team member Pat Scannon) was photographed in greater detail on this trip, which has already resulted in reclassification by team member Reid Joyce of the crash site from that of a F4U/FG-1 Corsair to a TBF/TBM Avenger. FULL REPORT in pdf RETURN TO LIST

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