Pearl Harbor
Swamp Ghost had been assigned to arrive at Pearl Harbor from San Francisco just one day before the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. But fate had it that the plane didn’t fly with the Kangaroo Squadron that day.
Instead, it served in some of the early American bombing missions of World War II. Then disaster struck. On January 23, 1942, the Japanese invaded Rabaul, a town on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, threatening Allied bases in the region.
