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We are returning to Yap Island the last week of August 2009 (next month). I have partnered with the Yap Visitors Bureau to create a series of memorial markers and historic information signs to place around the island. The signs and markers will provide WWII historic overviews to visitors to help them understand what took place on and over Yap during WWII. I will be helping them setup a WWII tour as well as providing history training to hotel guides and others. I’m very excited to return to Yap and share my research with the Yapese.

In addition to my work with the Yap Visitors Bureau we will be joined by a few additional people from the History Flight organization. They will be bringing equipment to help us find my uncle’s missing B-24.

We hit the jackpot at the national archives during our last research trip. We found documents listing the American and Japanese crash sites and graves on Yap in 1945. One of the documents included an interview with the Japanese commander of Yap that provided the location of my uncle’s missing plane. This location matches up with some other interviews I have conducted therefore we feel strongly that we might be able to location the Coleman B-24 in 2009.

I have also discovered a new F6F-5 loss on Yap. The Hellcat was flown by Ens. Delbert L. Martin. HE was shot down over Yap on 21 March 1945. I was unable to locate information about Delbert in the past because his unit flew from a Marine air base on Ulithi the day he was shot down. His carrier, the USS Randolph, was hit by a kamikaze a few days before.

Yap Island Mission Loss—21 March 1945
http://www.missingaircrew.com/yap/mac/21march1945.asp

Please look for more updates soon.

Respectfully,

-Pat
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