Re: A-26 INVADER/43-22606
Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:09 pm
I moved to Boise in mid-1978 and the concrete pedestal was still in the park.
I happened upon some burned remnants of it at a local scrapyard...not much left but still identifiable as an Invader.
The scrap yard on the SE part of town (over by the locomotive factory) was filled with interesting stuff, a few WWII-era military vehicles (I was there looking for a M38A1 post-war Jeep , the military variant of the CJ-5).
Also at the yard was a more or less intact F-86L with lots of non-crash body damage. It may have had ID ANG markings, I'm not sure.
At that time the ANG was flying the RF-4C, but they had a F-102 on a stick alongside the freeway near the airport.
On Gowan field, a B-25 was slowly being disassembled, I have a slide somewhere of just its center section. According to Scott Thompson's book, B-25 in Civil Service, it has survived somewhere.
Back then, B-17s came to town during fire season and TBMs were plentiful in the area, there was a huge lot of them for sale in Lewiston... going for about $15,000 apiece. Some of my B-17 photos are in Thompson's Final Cut.
I happened upon some burned remnants of it at a local scrapyard...not much left but still identifiable as an Invader.
The scrap yard on the SE part of town (over by the locomotive factory) was filled with interesting stuff, a few WWII-era military vehicles (I was there looking for a M38A1 post-war Jeep , the military variant of the CJ-5).
Also at the yard was a more or less intact F-86L with lots of non-crash body damage. It may have had ID ANG markings, I'm not sure.
At that time the ANG was flying the RF-4C, but they had a F-102 on a stick alongside the freeway near the airport.
On Gowan field, a B-25 was slowly being disassembled, I have a slide somewhere of just its center section. According to Scott Thompson's book, B-25 in Civil Service, it has survived somewhere.
Back then, B-17s came to town during fire season and TBMs were plentiful in the area, there was a huge lot of them for sale in Lewiston... going for about $15,000 apiece. Some of my B-17 photos are in Thompson's Final Cut.
Re: A-26 INVADER/43-22606
Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:40 pm
Two contemporary accounts; ironically the local papers had a lot of mentions of A-26s fighting forest fires in the area at that time:
No photos, but newspapers.com doesn't seem to have any Boise papers.
- The_Times_News_Wed__Jul_5__1972_.jpg (57.07 KiB) Viewed 1161 times
- South_Idaho_Press_Thu__Jul_6__1972_.jpg (50.8 KiB) Viewed 1161 times
No photos, but newspapers.com doesn't seem to have any Boise papers.