Crashed RAF Dakota found again

[H.Johnson]

Not quite WW2, but a story I have been following for some time as a visitor to Malaysia. The wreckage of a RAF Dakota III (that's a DC-3) that was on anti-Communist insurgency patrols over Kota Baru from Changi in Singapore in 1950 has been rediscovered near Gua Musang in present-day Malaysia. All 12 occupants were killed in the crash and the jungle is so dense in that area that a patrol sent out to recover the bodies was only able to bury them in situ. A later funeral ceremony was conducted by the Chaplain from a helicopter!

A brother of one of the deceased RAF personnel found a record of his relative on a service memorial near where I live and instigated the search, which led to the wreckage being finally rediscovered in June, after local troops had failed to find it since March. Native trackers made the difference, apparently.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2380280/Article/index_html

I was working in Malaysia recently and the case featured widely in the newspapers, as it is known that several Malayan civilians were with the 'plane and their relatives were being sought. Photographs of the wreckage show it to be in surprisingly good condition. I was hoping to be able to get up there to see it (obviously after the human remains were evacuated) put didn't have time. I'd like to look for it next time I'm out there.