{"id":8131,"date":"2016-11-05T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/?page_id=8131"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:48:59","slug":"kokopo-war-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/kokopo-war-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokopo War Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kokopo War Museum<\/strong> in <span class=\"body-text\"><strong>East New Britain<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>Papua New Guinea<\/strong> is home to a wide range of World War 2 relics. \u00a0The museum is filled with some of the well preserved collection of\u00a0WWII relic, photographs and historical heritage. The\u00a0<strong>A6M2 Model 21 Zero<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>which is\u00a0feature in the article. It is\u00a0one of the fighter planes that once defended Rabaul and its vital airstrips and shipping from Allied bombers. She is now slowly mouldering away in the open air War Museum in Kokopo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kokopo War Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"body-text\">Rabaul, Kokopo<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"body-text\">East New Britain<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/2015\/05\/06\/papua-new-guinea\/\">Papua New Guinea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"body-text\">+<span class=\"txt\">675 <\/span> <\/span><span class=\"txt\"> 982 <span class=\"body-text\">8453<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday &#8211; Friday 08:00 &#8211; 16:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d254617.58103198867!2d152.09798047334746!3d-4.335822046562878!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x68bf65552a9bd68f%3A0xff8abdaa5c467e08!2sKokopo%20War%20Museum!5e0!3m2!1snl!2sus!4v1739562322773!5m2!1snl!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aircraft collection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/kokopo-war-museum\/a6m-model-21-zero\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero-728x544.jpg\" alt=\"Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Sen Model 21, Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea\" class=\"wp-image-8132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero-728x544.jpg 728w, https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero-240x179.jpg 240w, https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero-420x314.jpg 420w, https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A6M-Model-21-Zero.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Sen Model 21, Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>41-2429<p><\/p>\n<p>41-2430<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>42-64570<\/p>\n<p>02566<\/p><\/td><td>Boeing B-17E Fortress (small parts)<p><\/p>\n<p>Boeing B-17E Fortress (large parts)<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth CA-1 Wirraway (fuselage frame)<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Sen Model 21<\/p>\n<p>North American B-25C Mitchell (small parts)<\/p>\n<p>Vought F4U-1A Corsair<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kokopo War Museum in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea is home to a wide range of World War 2 relics. \u00a0The museum is filled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33371,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8131\/revisions\/33371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}