Pacific Search For Missing Airmen
(Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Every island in the British Solomons, the Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, New Ireland and New Guinea has now been searched in an effort to locate the remains of New Zealand airmen missing in the area during the war.
Flight-Sergeant R. J. Begg, an RNZAF medical orderly, who joined a party of American servicemen early in the year to compile data about airmen missing in the Pacific, has now returned to New Zealand.
Although the discovery of the remains of only two New Zealand airmen killed in the jungles was the immediate result, later work may discover the identity of others and lead to the recovery of their remains. Much of me region covered had already been searched by Royal Australian Air Force searchers, but all their finds were visited again and checked to ensure that there had been no mistakes, and to discover aeroplane numbers which the Australians had been unable to find. Thus the identification of airmen who had .sometimes been buried as unknown was made certain.
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Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 3
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177Pacific Search For Missing Airmen Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 3
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