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SBD Dauntless Wreckage Found

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The Daily Mail reports that last month, wreckage of a Douglas SBD Dauntless was found by locals in the Papua New Guinea jungle. The Dauntless went down on January 14, 1944, with pilot Lt. Billy Ray Ramsey and gunner Sgt. Charlie J. Sciara aboard, and tales of the crash had been passed on for generations in the area. “The story was told by some of our grandparents and passed on to us that there was...

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