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The Swamp Ghost is a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress piloted by Captain Frederick 'Fred' C. Eaton, Jr. Swamp Ghost was forced to crash land in a swamp on Papua New Guinea during the Second World War on February 23, 1942 after an encounter with Japanese aircraft over Rabaul and having run out of fuel trying to avoid being shot down. All of the crew survived the crash landing and arduous trek out. For more than three decades, Swamp Ghost lay intact and virtually undisturbed, all but forgotten until the aircraft was rediscovered in 1972 in Agaiambo swamp by a Royal Australian Air Force helicopter and local press dubbed it the “Swamp Ghost." It is arguably the world’s only intact, and unretired, World War II-era B-17E bomber and is a one-of-a-kind example since it is the only B-17 in the world that still bears it's battle scars.

In 2010, the aircraft was shipped to the United States, and on June 11, 2010, was shown to a public gathering in Long Beach, California, that included fa...

I am a San Diego based landscape and wildlife photographer, born and raised in Stockton, Illinois ( the 'S' is - not - pronounced ). I am one of the many that came to San Diego for a visit and just kept delaying my plans to go home. Although my heart is still pulled to the rural and slower lifestyle of growing up in farm country, my life is in and around San Diego. Over the years, I've grown to appreciate the big city lifestyle, but I always crave getting outside, discovering new places, reaching for those places that remind me of my youth, and to find connections with folks that are also from Northwest Illinois. My love for photography was born out my creative instincts. During my professional training in advertising design, a course in...