They Mocked His 'Coconut' Fuel — Until 12 P-40s Flew Combat Missions For 6 Hours
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They called his coconut fuel "garage chemistry" that would destroy every engine on Henderson Field. Military engineers dismissed Jake Murphy's palm oil experiments as dangerous amateur science. Fellow mechanics mocked his "backyard moonshine" as certain suicide for any pilot crazy enough to use it. They were all wrong.
October 14th, 1942. Guadalcanal's Henderson Field was completely out of aviation fuel with Japanese bombers attacking twice daily. Twelve P-40 Warhawks sat useless on the runway while enemy aircraft systematically destroyed American positions. The next fuel convoy wouldn't arrive for three weeks, assuming it survived Japanese submarine attacks.
What Murphy discovered wasn't about following military fuel regulations. It was about converting coconut palm oil into aviation fuel using improvised chemistry that no military manual covered. His backyard refining process created fuel that powered aircraft engines for months when conventional logistics had completely failed.
This "coconut moonshine" kept an entire fighter squadron operational for six months, enabling over 300 combat missions that defended Henderson Field during the most critical phase of the Guadalcanal campaign. Murphy's fuel innovations influenced military logistics procedures and demonstrated that creative chemistry could overcome supply failures when lives depended on keeping aircraft flying.
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