Well yes, his plane took off from Rabaul but was 300 miles away on an inspection tour.... I was merely speaking broadly in the strategic sense that within “600 miles” would be “near” but thank you for the clarification.
Yeah, like I said, it’s just splitting hairs really. I think its because of the fact that the crash site is on a different island than Rabaul on New Britain that it read funny to me.