124 - Kais: Downed airmen in New Guinea
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In 1944, Ira Barnet took off from an airfield in New Guinea. Flying a B-25 Mitchell, from the 48th Tactical Fight Squadron, Ira and the crew were on a regular mission to harry any Japanese shipping they came across. Attacking a barge the Japanese managed to get some luck shots on Ira's plane. Attempting to nurse the Mitchell back to base it became obvious the plane wasn't going to make it. Ira was forced to make an emergency landing in a jungle swamp, miles behind enemy lines.
In this episode we're looking at the ordeal the crew went through and the rescue mission that was launched in an attempt to bring the boys back home.
I'm joined by Bas Krueger.
Bas is an aviation historian and author of Kais, which recounts the story and Bas's own attempts to locate the B-25 over 70 years later...
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace in |
| 0:35.8 | 1944 a B25 Mitchell flown by Ira Barnet took off from an airfield in Papua New Guinea on a regular mission to |
| 0:45.3 | Harry any Japanese shipping that they came across. |
| 0:49.2 | Attacking a barge, the Japanese managed to get some lucky shots in on Iris plane. |
| 0:54.8 | Attempting to nurse the Mitchell back to base, |
| 0:57.6 | it became obvious to the crew that they weren't going to make it |
| 1:01.2 | and will be forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp. |
| 1:05.4 | In this episode we're looking at the ordeal the crew went through and the rescue mission |
| 1:09.8 | that was launched in an attempt to bring the boys back home. I'm joined by Bass Krueger. |
| 1:16.4 | Bass is an aviation historian and author of Case, which recounts the story and |
| 1:21.6 | Bass's own attempts to locate the B-25 over 70 years later. |
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