[Milsurplus] Those P-39s Still in the Crates...

[Hubert Miller]

I love the stories but i have learned to retain some healthy skepticism. 
Wiki says the variant based with RAAF on Goodenough Island was the Kittyhawk, P-40.
As for remnants, think about this logically, after years of Japanese, Australian, and American collectors searching the jungles and cutting deals the natives.
Pacific Wrecks says,

“ Today
Still in use today as an airfield. Many Australian and American aircraft wrecks existed here until the middle 1970's when most airframes were recovered by http://www.pacificwrecks.com/restore/usa/marc.html (formally Yesterday's Air Force), and contemporary efforts of http://www.pacificwrecks.com/restore/australia/hars.html to remove a container worth of parts from the island. The runway is still in use to this day for weekly flights only. Photo by Charles Page, 2004 
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/visitors/page.html adds: 
"The 6,000 feet bitumen runway is still in use, and only slightly weed strewn. The many aircraft revetments are clearly visible, especially from the air. Various aircraft components can still be found scattered around. Towards the mountains, a fast running creek gushes over a waterfall and into a rock pool, which was used by the WWII crews for recreation and washing. 
The locals drove me out to Vivigani airfield to await the Airlines PNG Twin Otter. This weekly flight is invariably delayed due to weather or serviceability, and this day the plane was four hours late. The airfield has virtually no facilities, and the time was spent further exploring the area. Then with no warning, the Twin Otter swept in low from the north and we were soon on our way to Alotau."

As to the 3000 aircraft dumped at sea in one area, i was saying to myself, "Hmmmm......3000 ? "
Think about the logistics of concentrating 3000 aircraft from remote areas to one dump site. And then you might ask yourself, "Why?"

On a related thought, it quite astonishes me how quickly, once a technology is superseded, the old technology is swept from the table. In a more perfect world, "someone", that is some government agencies,
would try to preserve at least one each of everything made. That would apply to electronics too, but it is not to be. In many cases, it's up to us to preserve, altho it doesn't pay well at all. 
-Hue