Wreckage of Marine Plane Found in South Pacific

From the March 2, 2024, New York Post  "Wreckage of WW II plane that vanished in South Pacific found after 80 years" by Angela Barbuti.

The wreckage of a Marine Douglas SBD Dauntless was found by Papua New Guinea locals in a jungle last month.  It went down January14, 1944, with pilot Lt. Billy Ray Ramsey and gunner Sgt. Charlie J. Sciara aboard.

The plane crashed into three pieces after having left Munda Airfield in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands to target Japanese shipping in the Rabaul Harbor as a part of a large number of planes.  The tail was shot off.

The bodies were not found and both were declared dead and MIA a year later.  Their remains have still not been found.  It is believed that Sciara survived the crash but died later in a Japanese prison camp.

--GreGen