Aust team searches for WWII airmens' remains in PNG
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An Australian Air Force team will travel to Papua New Guinea next week to search for the remains of four RAAF airmen whose Hudson bomber was lost during WWII.
The four airmen were lost with the aircraft in 1942 during a sortie against Japanese ships at Gasmata Harbour in New Britain.
The search party of nine, including two forensic specialists, will travel to an isolated mountain ridge where the wreck of Hudson bomber was located in thick jungle earlier this year.
In a statement Defence Minister Warren Snowden said it was hoped that 66 years after losing their lives in the service of their nation, the four airmen will be accounted for.
The aircraft is in several large pieces with the cockpit upside down and partially buried in mud.
