PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2006

TheSwampGhost.com
New website for history and news related to B-17E 41-2446

A new website:  TheSwampGhost.com has been launched by Justin Taylan, founder of acclaimed websites: PacificWrecks.com and PacificGhosts.com 

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress known as “Swamp Ghost” participated in America’s first bombing mission in the South-West Pacific on February 23, 1942. Low on fuel and unable to return to base, pilot Frederick Eaton made a gentle landing in the New Guinea swampland. The crew abandoned the plane and struggled for six weeks back to safety.  Forgotten until October 1972, when it was rediscovered by an Australian helicopter. This undisturbed time capsule came to be known as “Swamp Ghost”.

In May 2006, the B-17 was salvaged from the swamp where it had rested undisturbed in Papua New Guinea (PNG).  The plane was one of the world’s last fully intact WWII wrecks on land that remained where it crashed 64 years earlier. Its salvage created a flurry of interest and controversy, which saw the bomber impounded.  The salvage became the subject of an ongoing PNG government inquiry.  It is yet to be seen what will happen to “Swamp Ghost” next.

VisitTheSwampGhost.com to read the latest news, history and documentation related to this bomber, and ways for readers to see it: including a photo archive spanning from 1942 until 2006, video trailers, audio podcasts and details on its crew and even to see the bomber on Google Earth.

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Taylan visited “Swamp Ghost” several times and met its former crew members.  He is also the creator of the documentary “The Swamp Ghost”, the only documentary about this bomber. Contacted info@TheSwampGhost.com or call 1-310-237-5389.