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B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Wed May 15, 2013 5:21 pm

A person is looking for ID of this section on a B-24 which was shot down, and this was found in his grandmother's barn recently. I am no expert, but it looks to me like upper fuselage skin where the radio-compass " football " attached, and behind it, another antenna. He says it is about 60 inches long by 55 inches wide.
Does anyone have good pics of this area of a B-24 to see if I am on the right track, or if I am wrong, tell us what/where this might be from on a B-24 ?

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Re: B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Wed May 15, 2013 6:07 pm

That sure looks like rusty steel. Did they use steel on a B24?

Re: B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Wed May 15, 2013 7:56 pm

I don't think that part is off a 24. Certainly not around the adf football mount.The part does look like it had some shape in it before the bulldozer ran over it.

Re: B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Wed May 15, 2013 10:48 pm

Formation light, looks like from the top of the fuselage just forward of the horizontal

Re: B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Fri May 17, 2013 5:41 am

Looks like a Spitfire slipper tank
Cees

Re: B-24 skin section / parts ID help needed

Fri May 17, 2013 10:46 am

Cees, just googled up Spitfire slipper tank images, and I believe we have a winner !
That is exactly it. Thanks !
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