Aleutian Airfield 1943 PBY's ,& PV-1's

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:43 pm

US NAVY PHOTO

gary1954 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:50 pm

Ahhh the State of AaaaaaaaLasssssKkkaaaaaa. As any airframes left behind from the World War Two era now belong to the USS Alaska, I wonder if the extra stuff that was left behind belongs to AaaaaaaaLasssssKkkaaaaaa? I imagine that there was a lot of stuff that was buried when the US Military left the AO (area of operation). Easier to bury it than load it up and bring it home.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:58 pm

Or just left where they set down :shock:

http://www.pixdatabase.com/photo/2946/

Nathan · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:04 pm

That B-24 was recovered I believe and is now on display at Hill AFB museum? There was a TV show on the recovery of the wreck.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:07 pm

Yup, I saw that show too! Here is a link to a fellow that has spent many summers digging for "gold" in Alaska, P-38 and P-40 bits....very interesting
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/pho ... index.html

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:04 am

Sometime back in the 90s I took a tour of the NMUSAF storage building. They had a large pile of aircraft wreckage (too mangled to identify from a brief glance in a dark warehouse) that we were told was pulled out of the Aleutians as part of a recovery project.

Isn't there supposedly another relatively intact B-24 laying up there somewhere?

SN

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:03 am

Does the PV-1 have two "Stars and bars" on each side? That is a very cool paint job, I'd love to see one painted up like that. I'd also wish for more PV-1 /PV-2 were flying around.

Great pictures! I wish there was more shows and books about that front during the war. The crews deserve much more honor for what they did!

Tim

262crew · **Joined:** Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:24 pm **Posts:** 877

Holedigger wrote:

Or just left where they set down :shock:

http://www.pixdatabase.com/photo/2946/

I think this is the one that is at Hill AFB?

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