The Pacific is littered with the debris of war. Mostly rusting away, or in the ocean, and often dangerous.
On Nauru I found a large section of a Japanese Nakajima Zero in someones garden. The rest is probably somewhere in the undergrowth.
Nauru was surrendered without a fight, at the end of WW2. The Japanese were loaded onto boats and taken away, their equipment was left as it was. Apparently until the 1970s there were rows of such Zeros standing at the edge of former airfields. Most have been scrapped or buried now.
Mi mate, the zero has now been dumped at the tip and been stripped for souvenirs. My workmate is currently cutting up the oxygen port from the front left corner to make an ornament for his coffee table.
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