Zachary wrote:
Now what's this about a crashed B-17?
Zack
Ok, I just can't let Spooky and Zack hang like I did in my last post
A B-17 didn't quite clear the ridge that forms the spine of Cape Lookout in bad weather, 1943? All on board killed except one. A memorial plaque has been placed along the Cape Lookout trail about 1/2 mile from the trailhead and about 1/4 mile from the crash site. The first time I was there about 20 years ago, I couldn't find anything until I started looking at the tops of the larger trees in the area and found some with still noticable damage. After that, it became pretty easy to find bits and pieces of wreckage within a few feet of the trail. The second time I was there about 5 years later, my nephews and I located a chunk of wing down a gulley, but it was a pain to get to and even worse to get back to the trail. The last time I was there about 10 years back, we found a chunk of metal still hanging in one of the large trees, I've got a fuzzy picture of that around here somewhere. Everytime I've been there, its been obvious that a lot of folks know the location of the wreck as small stuff seems to move around a lot. Oregon Public TV did a program on the accident years ago, though I've never seen it. And the museum at Tillamook has some of the larger pieces from the a/c (wheel and brake assy, IIRC) though they didn't have it on display the last time I was there.
Do a Google search for B17 and Cape Lookout and see what pops up.
I'm sure that someone will complain about my posting the location of an historic wreck site, but they can go pack sand. It's location has been known ever since it went in; the wreck is listed in at least one hiking guide book, is very accessible and there really isn't much left for anyone to pilfer anyway. And what is left consists of small, corroded bits of metal. So there...
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