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- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
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- Subject: Re: HELP: Tontouta Task Force (New Caledonia)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.224501.225@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:45:01 GMT
- References: <LIBREF-L%93012301161452@KENTVM.KENT.EDU>
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- In article <LIBREF-L%93012301161452@KENTVM.KENT.EDU>, S_NATALE%TWU.BITNET@Kentvm.Kent.edu writes:
- > Reply to S_NATALE@TWU.
- >
- > ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- > This message has been cross-posted to MILHST-L, WWII-L, HIST-L, and HISTORY.
- > Please send all responses to the addresses at the end of this message.
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Hello -
- >
- > I am currently looking for ANY information regarding the following:
- >
- > ***********************
- > TONTOUTA TASK FORCE
- > ***********************
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- Although you may have posted this to MILHST-L, you might try also posting this
- on the sci.mil group on USENET.
-
- Josh
- backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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- >
- > On 16 May 1942, two B-17E aircraft, five flight crews and ground
- > specialists departed Hickam Field, T.H., with less than twenty-four hours
- > notice, for Fiji, where three additional B-17E aircraft were added to the task
- > force. Following a day of testing, the five aircraft flew to Tontouta, New
- > Caledonia, a small landing strip forty kilometers north of Noumea. The
- > aircraft operated under Navy command, flying reconnaissance flights in the
- > Solomon Islands area for the next four weeks. One aircraft crashed 8 June
- > 1942, in New Zealand, killing the task force commander, R. Cobb, and the flight
- > crew. On 25 June, the remaining four aircraft and flight crews flew to
- > Brisbane, becoming part of the 19th Bombardment Group operations in
- > Australia and New Guinea.
- >
- > The information that I seek concerning this task force includes:
- >
- > 1. Addresses of persons in the task force (or where they can be found)
- >
- > 2. Information describing the purpose of the task force
- >
- > 3. Data concerning the results achieved by the task force
- >
- > Any and all information regarding this task force would be immensely
- > appreciated. I have exhausted a good number of library collections in the North
- > Texas Area.
- >
- > Please reach me through e-mail c/o:
- >
- > Joe Natale
- > s_natale@twu (Bitnet)
- > s_natale@twu.edu (Internet)
- >
- > I can also be reached by snail mail at the following address:
- >
- > William R. Eaton
- > 400 Woodland Street
- > Denton, Texas 76201
- > (817)382-7800
- >
- > Many thanks for anyone's help in advance. Again, any information or leads would
- > be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > William R. Eaton
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