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This website documents the efforts of Zanger’s three nieces with historians Henry Sakaida and Justin Taylan. Together, they honor his legacy by research his fate, locate his crashed plane, and where he was detained as a prisoner in Papua New Guinea.

Marine Pilot Zanger

On December 5, 1944, U. S. Marine Corps (USMC) fighter pilot 1st Lt. Moszek “Mike/Murray” Zanger from Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222) “Flying Deuces” suffered an aerial collision over New Britain. Damaged, he bailed out and became a Prisoner Of War (POW) until his death in July 1945.

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