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May 14, 2021, midnight · A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation airplane similiar to one that disappeared in 1962. (Photo courtesy of Wreaths Across America) Listen To This Story It’s been almost six decades since a military charter flight carrying 93 highly trained soldiers disappeared over the Pacific Ocean between Guam and the Philippines. Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was never found, but the families of those aboard, including one from Nebraska, will get some closure Saturday in the form of a unique memorial in the woods of Maine. There is a Nebraska connection, but first some background on Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 and the mystery that still surrounds it almost 60 years later. ....
Download 42.70 MB 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..? ....
The bravery, tragedy, and mystery of Captain Smirnov s secret diamond delivery Posted MonMonday 25 updated MonMonday 25 JanJanuary 2021 at 11:28pm Diamond Jack Palmer (third from left) with an investigating party in front of the bullet-riddled Netherlands East Indies KLM Dakota DC-3. ( Share Print text only Darwin has recently been bombed by the Japanese and they are about to capture Java. On the airstrip at Bandung, a Dutch DC-3 passenger plane named the Pelikaan is ready for take-off on an evacuation flight to Broome. Japanese bombers attack warships in the Java Sea in February 1942. ( The KLM plane has been repainted in camouflage colours. ....