Beechcraft Super King Air 200 (N875SP) Flying over Falalop, Ulithi |
Looking over the weekly photos from FlightAware, this one caught my eye and then the caption piqued my curiosity. Ulithi? Where the heck is Ulithi?
Ulithi is in the Pacific Ocean. I don't remember hearing about it before, but it's on my map of Pacific island airports. It's not much of a place, a few tiny islands lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but during the last year of WW2 it was a very big deal.
1940s World War II: Ulithi, Anchorage
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P.S. Samaritan's Purse donated two of these airplanes to Pacific Mission Aviation, a Christian organization spreading the gospel, doing good works and providing air transport services around Micronesia.
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