Quakertown B-24

[terveurn]

Interesting article about a unknown B-24

https://www.facebook.com/groups/b24best ... 2710334141

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[aerovin2]

Wow, thanks, Dave. Another one surfaces. I’ll add it to my listing. Interesting story. More digging perhaps warranted.

[Chris Brame]

Allentown Morning Call, August 9, 1946:



Ibid, August 13, 1946:

[Chris Brame]

Perkasie, PA News-Herald, August 15, 1946; looks like it was surplused out of Bush Field, GA:

[Chris Brame]

Morning Call, August 30, 1947:

[Chris Brame]

Hmm. Not connected, except one of the two also came from Bush Field:



I'd like to find out the rest of that story!

[Chris Brame]

Morning Call, May 7, 1951 - a Civil Air Patrol exercise:



Ibid, May 8, 1954 - looks like the end is near:



Bristol Daily Courier, same date:



And that's all I could find - unless their historical society or the local Boy Scouts council has something.

[aerovin2]

I went to add this Quakertown B-24 to my RFC listing and...it is already there. It was identified by Nick Veronico some time ago as B-24E 41-7127.



My master RFC list is here: https://www.aerovintage.com/waa-rfc-listing/

[Chris Brame]

Were B-24Es retrofitted with the nose turret?

[terveurn]

Were B-24Es retrofitted with the nose turret?

They do whey have been modded with remote turrets

see sidebarbetts

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