Warbird Information Exchange

Here are some shots of the "junkyard" out behind the 8th Air Force Museum at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.

You recon the canopy is from a B-47? The vertical stabilizer looks B-17 or 29. I love junk yards, sort of a redneck art museum ...Tom

Yeah that looks like a B-17 tail. I was t here for training in September, and that was not there. The junkyard was, but not the B-17 tail.

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The tail is from their TB-29A 44-87627 which was damaged in a storm.

It looked like there were some other B-29 parts in there as well. Am I right?

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EAA Aviation Museum Manager

That's definately the vertical fin from Barksdale's B-29..wonder why they removed it. I heard a few of thier aircraft took some damage from Katrina.

SN

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b29registry/b29-4487627.html

I am stationed at Barksdale and after Rita, the control surface on the B-29s rudder was partially ripped off and the tail damaged, it is being shipped off to be repaired. The other planes were not damaged at all except for a C-47 whoose control surfaces were damaged becuse they were flapping in the wind and were damaged.

Good pics! The jeep is an early 1970's vintage M-151A2 M.U.T.T. without the R.O.P.S. kit (rollover protection system). The little "jeep" trailer is a Sears and Roebuck special, $129. ! Could the canopy be off an F-89 Scorpion?

[quote="marine air"]Good pics! The jeep is an early 1970's vintage M-151A2 M.U.T.T. without the R.O.P.S. kit (rollover protection system). The little "jeep" trailer is a Sears and Roebuck special, $129. ! Could the canopy be off an F-89 Scorpion?[/quote

Yeah but you did not mention the special feature about that M-151A2............. It looks like that the back is open, if it is............(got better pics???) that would make it A M-151A2C.......the C designation making it the Recoiless Rifle Carrier of the 151 series. A piece that definatly does not belong in a airforce museum......lol

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I thought at first it was from F-89 but I pretty sure the canopy is from a B-47....I noticed the nose of he little communications jamming drone (don't know the name of) in the same pic....

This is definitely not a M151A1C. The M151A1C has no rear bench seat and no rear mounted spare. You can see the spare tire mount in the back. Also the M151A1C has a fender mounted fold down seat gunners seat for the 106MM recoilless rifle gunner.

The rear panel of the M151A2 has rather large "dip" making the back partially open which is what you see in the picture. Looks like this one was one of the lucky M151A2s that didn't have the terrible looking ROPS installed which requires a big hole being cut in the rear fender, the toolbox lid to be notched out and the floor drilled up with roll bar mounts. The M151A1 and A2 were both used by the USAF but my guess is that you're right about the M151A1C.

I have and M151A1 under restoration right now in my garage.

Do I need to go back and take some more shots of the jeep?

It appears that the trailer those 2 engine mounts are sitting on may be an M5 bomb service trailer.

Well I have seen modified A2C's that had a rear seat installed instead of the recoiless. only big diffrenence was the spring set up on the rear was a give away

dont have any M151s, but got a bunch of others..............lol
www.linehaulrvn.tripod.com

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Seems like a lot of work to modify an M825(A2 version of the M151A1C) into an M151A2 with what would seem like an ample supply of A2s. These days you mostly see the opposite as the M825 is much rarer than the M151A2. Of course, in the Army the motorpool Sgt was capable of just able anything lol.