Lost gold shipment West Africa 1946

Hello All

There is a group of historic aircraft enthusiasts who travel the world looking for aircraft wrecks on sea and land and abandoned historic aircraft. Some they salvage for parts others they recover if restorable for aircraft museums. They research the history of the Aircraft and crew that was in them.

A few years ago I came across a group that was working in New Guinea  and the Solomon Islands.

They had  come in for some criticism from archeologists because of their work on ww2 aircraft that were war graves. Even when they recovered the bodies and notified the relevant authorities of the remains, And helped return the remains of missing airmen back to their families.

Archeologists argue that they are profiteering from the private venture.The group have countered that governments have not bothered to spend the money in retrieving and recording these Aircraft wrecks or returning loved ones remains back to their families. And the money has to come from some where to pay the costs of the discovery and retrieving of such remains.

I recall the group may of been headed by a Frenchman but I cannot recall his name.
They have built up a massive data base of crash sites world wide. Here is a some pictures of their finds.

It would be interesting to see if they have any aircraft listings for west Africa?

Hardluck 





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Hello To All:

Attached is the expected response from my FOIA request.  I will follow up with the recommendations in the letter and advise further.

Regards,
Sharon(justshill)

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I was wondering if a thermal scan could spot potential locations? Perhaps the canopy might still obscure it but it might be interesting. If you could do it at a cool point of the day or year who knows it might show up?

Flying over mountain ranges can be rather tricky all the bush pilots will tell you. Sudden pockets of cold air can drop you like a stone hundreds of feet. If they were flying low for some reason perhaps that could have been the issue, and given no time to tap out a signal. Just a thought.

An interesting tale to say the least. Good job all on finding a lot of intriguing data. 

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  Yes but still a dead end at the moment a total dead end and what gets me is that the answer is out there. I just don't see it   

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Xavier

Hmm yes you got a point there I do that with my VLF project and sure enough something comes up in one of the posts or I accidentally find some doc on the net.

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