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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => Alternatives to the Niku Hypothesis => Topic started by: Ric Gillespie on March 12, 2017, 09:29:00 AM

Title: Research Needed - Venturas near Howland?
Post by: Ric Gillespie on March 12, 2017, 09:29:00 AM: We are confident that the current Nauticos "Eustace Earhart Discovery Expedition" will not find NR16020, but there may be other twin-engine, twin-tailed Lockheeds on the ocean bottom in the general Howland vicinity that could fool them into thinking they have. In September 1943, as part of the run-up to Operation Galvanic (the invasion of Tarawa), an Army Air force engineer battalion began construction of an airfield on Baker Island to act as a staging area for bombing raids on Tarawa by B-24s based on Canton Island. "Air cover for the Baker occupation was furnished by Navy Venturas from Canton Island..." (The Army Air Force in World War II, edited by Graves & Gate).
What more can we learn about Venturas operating in the Howland area?
Title: Re: Research Needed - Venturas near Howland?
Post by: Albert Durrell on March 12, 2017, 01:07:49 PM: http://ww2db.com/aircraft_spec.php?aircraft_model_id=345

History in WW II, but no mention of aircraft lost.
Title: Re: Research Needed - Venturas near Howland?
Post by: Albert Durrell on March 12, 2017, 01:13:40 PM: http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/pv-1/

Listing of wrecks in Pacific.
Title: Re: Research Needed - Venturas near Howland?
Post by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on March 12, 2017, 02:02:24 PM: I have tried to keep tabs on "Aircraft lost in the vicinity of Niku." (https://tighar.org/wiki/Aircraft_lost_in_the_vicinity_of_Nikumaroro)

It grew out of a list you posted on the Forum back in 2001, Ric.

Augmented with footnotes and links to sources.

I presume some of the sources would have info about wrecks in the proposed search area.
Title: Re: Research Needed - Venturas near Howland?
Post by: Ric Gillespie on March 12, 2017, 04:36:04 PM: Thank you gentlemen. So far it looks like no known Ventura losses anywhere near Howland.