About Justin Taylan
Justin Taylan, searches out wrecks, safeguards human remains, and returns dog tags and other artifacts to surprised veterans.
He is founder of PacificWrecks.com, a free, non-profit history website detailing World War II stories and Pacific theater airplane wrecks. that draws 45,000 hits a month. He produces and distributes historical his own documentaries and has appeared on The History Channel and PBS.
Taylan was featured in the October 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine in an article “Swamp Ghosts: In Papua New Guinea, a journalist investigates the controversy over a World War II bomber.�
He wrote his first book about the war, “No Place for a Picnic,” at age 16 about his grandfather’s wartime service. He has since been published in many historical and flight publications and spoken on the topic of war wrecks around the world.
