Another fascinating group is Bent Prop, a volunteer group that goes to the Palau Islands each year to search for downed American aircraft. Once they have located a crash site, they document as much information as they can and then turn it over to JPAC. JPAC is currently searching three crash sites that the Bent Prop folks have uncovered; one F-4U Corsair, a TBM-1 Avenger, and a B-24J Liberator.
Bent Prop's 2009 expedition just started the other day and they will be posting updates on their website throughout the coming weeks.
We ran a story on JPAC at the Foxhole a few years ago and we also have a freeper who was on a recent mission to recover a downed fighter from I think the Vietnam era.
They do good work.
Thank you, sir, for the link to Bent Prop. I will be reading their reports with interest. And, will read their past expedition reports as well.
My father was a B-24 pilot in WWII, albeit in the ETO.
Semper Fi,