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In early March 1942 the Japanese forces were about to capture Java. On the airstrip at Bandung a DC3 passenger plane named the Pelikaan was ready for take-off on an evacuation flight to Broome in Western Australia. The pilot was Russian World War One flying ace, Ivan Smirnov.
Ivan Smirnov in World War 1
As he was about to leave, Smirnov was handed a package without any paperwork. What Smirnov didn t know was that inside that package was thirty million dollars worth of diamonds. He also didn t know that as he approached Broome he would be attacked by three Japanese Zero fighter planes and be forced to crash land the DC3 on a remote beach. So what happened to Smirnov and his passengers, and where did those diamonds go..?
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