Any update on the Atka B24-D

[Django]

And now of course we know there is Hadley's Harem, also a surviving D model.

[TimAPNY]

And now of course we know there is Hadley's Harem, also a surviving D model.

Sorry for my ignorance on this but please explain. (Hoping I'm not missing a joke here)

Tim

[Django]

Tim, no joke. Google Hadley's Harem. Recovered in Turkey, a Ploesti survivor. Very few people know about it, which always surprises me, especially here.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... p?p=345051

[Steve Nelson]

<edit> Looks like Django submitted his post while I was still trolling the net for pics!

B-24D 41-24311 "Hadley's Harem" was one of the Liberators flown on the infamous low level raid on the Ploesti oil refineries on 8/1/43. She was badly shot up ditched off the coast of Turkey, and much of the wreckage was recovered in 1995, along with the remains of two of her crew. The cockpit section is apparently all that is currently on display in a museum in Istanbul (not Constantinople.)

SN

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[TimAPNY]

Now I remember! Thanks for reminding me.

Tim

[Chris Brame]

Isn't there also a nearly intact (broken in half) B-24 on a mountain in Java? I remember seeing an aerial photo of it here a long time ago.

[george]

Chris - I believe that the Java Lib photo actually turned out to be the one on Atka. Just like the Great Sitkin Lib pictured so often actually turned out to be the one on Ilak.