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Are these Tallichet aircraft? Supposedly each taken in 1972.
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It looks like the bottom photo could possibly be of at least two of the Million Dollar Valley B-26s that were recovered in late '71.

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Just a guess on the Liberator:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b24regis ... 40461.html

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There is the Dave Tallichet story that he bought several B-24s and in transportation by rail the vibrations broke these up enough that they wound up getting scrapped. Could this be one of those?

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There is the Dave Tallichet story that he bought several B-24s and in transportation by rail the vibrations broke these up enough that they wound up getting scrapped. Could this be one of those?



These pics are the Tallichet airplanes being shipped from the Yukon, and the scrapping story is correct. One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's. These days those never would have been scrapped.
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JohnH wrote:
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...One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's...


https://www.johnweeks.com/b24/b24hampton.html

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JohnH wrote:
These pics are the Tallichet airplanes being shipped from the Yukon, and the scrapping story is correct. One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's. These days those never would have been scrapped.



Considering the rarity of B-24s, I'm surprised they were scrapped even then.
A lot of people were doing a lot of work on warbirds even back then. And remember that B-24s were rare enough for folks to go to the trouble and expense to rescue those 3-4 out of India.

I have a hunch there is more to the story.
At there very least, I hope some of the parts went to support the then healthy PB4Y fleet.

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