Doolittle B-25 site in China?

[henry]

not to put a downer on things, but with amount of scrap going to china (and it's value), you would think that if there was anything semi accessable left in mainland china it will soon be turned into cans or something.

[Broken-Wrench]

When I went to China last year I didn't see any trees larger than a thin girls waist.. I guess they made boxs out of everything else.. From what I saw if there was any scrap metal laying around it would have disapeared long ago.. Those people are poor and live in dormiatory type housing. The air quality is so bad I couldn't breath.. My eyes always burned and the rental car picked up at the airport was clean however the next day it looked wlike we took it down a gravel road.. I couln't wait to leave.. The only good part was I found a outback steak house... When we ate there you would have thought we were lion's taking down a wildabeast.!

[6trn4brn]

(*bumpity bump*)

Been a couple of years now since we last talked about these. Anybody have anything new to add? I still think it would be the coolest thing since peanut butter to see one of the Flying Tigers P-40s or one of the Doolittle Raiders B-25s on display as found or if they had to, some resto work done to stop corrosion.

Surely just dreaming???

[mustangdriver]

Ellen Lawson gave me a piece of metal recovered from the Ruptured Duck. It is still OD green!

[bluehawk15]

Hank Potter, Doolittle's nav on plane #1, went with some others to China to see if they could find anything left of any of the planes. He came back with the armor seat back from Doolittle's seat. He said the old farmer told them he had a piece of prop and was excited to sell it. He came out of his barn with a piece of bent steel that Hank recognized right away as not a prop, but seat armor. He then put it in our Doolittle display in the CenTex Wing hangar at the San Marcos Municipal Airport. Hank said there wasn't anything big left of the planes that they could find, or find out about. The locals had turned the aluminum into pots and pans by hand!

Of course they might have only been looking for pieces of planes that ended up on land.

[scottmcfarland]

I have some pictures of the display in San Marcos from a few years back.


http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx30 ... 150126.jpg

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx30 ... 150136.jpg

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx30 ... 0132-1.jpg

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[gary1954]

It is odd, that "nothing" is left, as there is one photograph of the Great One sitting on the wing of his Crashed B-25. I wonder how many Chinamen it took to spirit the wings away. Proabably a roof for a porch somewhere near the village that where she went down.

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[Chris Brame]

I'd bet 40-2347 will be flying before 40-2267 is recovered (or found).

[ZRX61]

The only thing Tighar seem adept at recovering is cash from peoples wallets... They've been around for how long.. & have yet to recover ONE aircraft???
Maybe they should try something easy first, perhaps the Ojai P51 in Ca...