It's been a long journey that began in December 1986 when Rod Pearce found #41-24521 lying deep in the waters off New Guinea. The documentary was made in 1987 and shown on television in Australia and the U.S. twenty years ago and had pretty much been forgotten about.

Justin Taylan at Pacific Wrecks had the idea of digitally re-mastering it and releasing it on DVD and he's done a really beautiful job.

Justin Taylan also took George Prezioso, the "Black Jack" radio operator, out to the Collings Foundation B-17G that happened to be nearby in September 2008. Justin filmed him in and around the B-17, and that's now a very special "Extra" on this DVD. At that time George was believed to be the last survivor of the crew that ditched Black Jack on 11 July 1943.