The Swamp Ghost is a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The Swamp Ghost is a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress piloted by Captain Frederick 'Fred' C. Eaton, Jr, that ditched in a swamp on Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. During a raid on ships at Japanese-occupied New Britain on February 23, 1942, they were intercepted and eventually, having run out of fuel, made a forced landing in an isolated swamp at the base of the Owen Stanley mountains, near the north coast of New Guinea. All of the crew survived the crash landing and the arduous six week trek out. They were assigned another B-17 and continued to fly for the rest of the war. In 1972 the airplane was spotted by a Royal Australian Air Force helicopter in Agaiambo swamp, and local press dubbed it the “Swamp Ghost.” It was salvaged in 2006 and is currently on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Hangar 79 on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Location: Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI, United States
Photo credit: © Brent Taylor Productions / Alamy / Afripics
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