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This first series of photos below show Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-20-DL Fortress 42-37895 busted up in the woods. Looks to have been a stateside training plane at this time.
J Baugher states: Delivered Denver Oct 8, 1943; Las Vegas Oct 30, 1943; assigned to 91st BG at Bassingbourn UK, but en route to the UK crash landed at Cliffory, Northern Ireland on Dec 9, 1943; It then states (WO) May 20, 1944. (FORTLOG)

If I read this corerctly then doesn't it seem this B-17 crashed twice? One in N Ireland and then again stateside? A bit of bad luck.

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Fort Benning, Georgia on 28 June 1944. 1272. 'View showing Capt. C. C. Bohannan, of the 71st Division Artillery sitting in the cockpit of his L-4

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This is a series showing what looks to be a C-46 busted up real good. (bad). I'm thinking Canada or Alaska.










Below is a small observation plane wreck. Only a couple of days after the C-46. If I recall one was looking for the other.

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F-86H-5-NA Sabre/52-2096, crashed on August 17, 1955.







Webb Air Force Base Lockheed T-33 Crash, 1958

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This is a stateside Grumman F6F Hellcat in the woods, not sure where and when this happened.

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We've been discussing that B-17 on the Aero Vintage forum; looks like the Osborne listing could be mistaken? Note the lack of cheek gun positions, usually a hallmark of a stateside trainer.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

I would say definitely somewhere in the Southeastern US - look at all that Spanish moss!

Tom P.

And the darn thing is still on its gear!! Just wow!!

Where was this? Clearly somewhere in the deep south from the pines and Spanish moss...

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This one made it.

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Per AAIR, this was 2 miles SSE of Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Images restored

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