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Spotted here, unfortunately the link to the full-size photo doesn't work: https://dp.la/item/bfa8ba5fa307a3efd39d6b723efb2921?q=b-17&partner=%22Minnesota+Digital+Library%22&after=1941&before=1961&page=1 Enlarged from what's left. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53340292951_28f3009cfe_o.png Locat...

Got it - only bidder too . Will do a big scan to share when I get it.

No bids yet, if you want it I'll hold off.

Printed backwards:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/375029772159


Baugher and Osborne say it hit a hillside returning from a mission to Buna on December 3, 1942.

In the really early 70s my Boy Scout Troop was doing a required cross-country hike for some badge. You know the sort that you use your map and compass and just hike out into the woods. We found a relatively intact B-17 and informed the Rangers. Any chance of an ID on that B-17? I imagine most crash...

42-5734 here - it's a reprint:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/195963578966

A set of four B-17 photos showed up on eBay; one of them appears to be 42-97155 converted to Swedish airliner SE-BAO: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53162342832_0a8e002235_o.jpg Interesting in that the other photos of SE-BAO I've seen show a very different mostly NMF scheme: https://www.aerovin...

Previously known as Damndifino!; taken at Biggs Field, TX in November 1944:




https://www.ebay.com/itm/186044681196

An unfortunate meeting with 42-102595?
https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/rpt ... ecID=42368
https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/rpt ... ecID=42367

Did a little research on Plain Dealing Express (I thought it had to do with the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper) and got some info - never heard of Plain Dealing, Louisiana before: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53106322025_653c4aa468_b.jpg Looks like he named his first plane Carolyn after his...

Maybe Buckingham Field at Ft. Myers? Remember the two OD/NG ones with big 2-digit tail numbers I posted earlier that were from Buckingham.

Any guesses as to the source/ID of the replacement vertical?
And did they get a good deal on it, or did they have to pay re-tail?

...I'll see myself out.

Checked Classmates site for Wadesboro High School yearbooks but the earliest available was from 1955. Check their library?

A few screencaps to add to the movie page for Top of the World : https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52931779698_ca4c5f64f6_h.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52931332446_94201a8883_h.jpg The print on YT is only clear enough to pick up one serial: 44-83595. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535...

Did some digging through the Newspapers site and got a few hits: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52931561780_f92c1c83ba_c.jpg The Spokane Chronicle , February 17, 1954 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52931561705_80e7ebc4c0_c.jpg The Spokane Spokesman-Review , February 19, 1954 https://live.s...