P-38 CRASH SITE PHOTOGRAPHED!

While working for the United States Coast Guard last summer, I was sent to the USCG Loran-C station on Attu Island, Alaska. On one of my days off, I hiked about 8 miles to the West of the Station to a P-38 crash site. I believe the crash occurred after the war, when the pilot flew up the wrong valley with low ceilings (unverified rumor). The plane is fairly intact. The wingtips (outboard of the engines), props and guns have been removed. The engines are both lying a short distance from the plane. It appears that something has been removed from both booms just aft of the superchargers. The cockpit has been stripped of instruments and some immature hoodlums have shot through the vertical stabilizers. The plane has "13400" in 5-inch high yellow numbers on the verticle stabilizers. If you have more information on this crash, I would love to hear it! I doubt the plane could be removed as most of Attu is a national monument.-Philip Nell




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