Warbird Information Exchange

Shame no examples remain. Are there any known wrecks that might be salvaged eventually?

Only possible remains that I know of are buried on Okinawa....Not a chance that one would ever get the ok to excavate.

If I remember correctly, there is a horizontal stab from a B32 on display south of San Diego at a war memorial that is visible from the freeway on the east side. North of Brown field. I was told it was the only remaining major componant of a Dominator left....

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Some B-32 scrapping info. here, https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/201 ... inventory/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolida ... _Dominator
One of the few portions of a B-32 surviving is a wing panel removed from a static test model and erected at the Montgomery Memorial near San Diego, California as a monument to aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery.[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Memorial

Several Sperry A-17 nose/tail turrets, unique to the B-32, survive in various U.S. locations. These included the National Air & Space Museum, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the Commemorative Air Force, the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York and at least four others in private collections.

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I've heard the wing that's a tribute to Montgomery has been re-skinned in stainless...and I think the aileron is no longer a separate part.

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In 1994 or 95 when I lived in the Phoenix area, I responded to a classified ad (remember those) for airplane "stuff", and wound up in either Cave Creek or Carefree, AZ at the home in the desert hills of a gentleman who was deep into aviation. His entire home was a museum to military flying, with photos, clippings, stacks of books and papers, memorabilia and bits and pieces of old flying machines on every wall and flat surface. I just wasn't into warbirds to appreciate all he had like I would now, but he showed me a ginormous main landing gear that he said was the last part around of a B-32. So, I'm writing all this because I've wondered who he was, and perhaps there's a WIXer to whom this sounds familiar.

Correct - I took these photos back in 1983:

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In 1971 my family lived across the street from the wing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Memorial

I thought I remembered a docudrama I saw once on the Montgomery flights with Glenn Ford as the lead. Your link had a Montgomery bio-page link with blurb about the movie from 1946, "Gallant Journey" with Paul Mantz and a couple of others performing the flying duties...bout 1/3 down page.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Montgomery

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