MISSING PLANE
REPATRIATED PRISONERS OF WAR ABOARD ROUTE LAY OVER ROUGH HEAD-HUNTER AREAS Recd. 6.30 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 23. Eighteen Australian prisoners of war, one R.A.A.F. nurse and eight R.A.A.F. personnel have been missing in a Douglas transport plane between Biak and Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, since last Tuesday. Hundreds of planes have flowy thousands of miles in a vain search for the missing plane, including a close survey of Shangri La Valley, in Dutch New Guinea mountains. Australian Army and Air Force authorities have questioned Japanese in, areas where the plane is believed to have disappeared, but without result. The route of the plane lay over wild country, inhabited by head hunters. Air Force officials are puzzled by the fact that no distress signals were received from the plane.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 226, 24 September 1945, Page 5
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