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Re: B-17C in Norway
Posted by Mikael Olrog on Fri Aug 30, 2002 08:24:31 PM
In reply top Re: B-17C in Norway posted by Cees Broere on Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:43:27 PM
You know that some 3000 a/c crashed in norway during the war and they are very, very ambitious in recovering a/c. The B17 wasn't very important to norway so they're choosing to recover other aircraft instead - at least that's my guess. They do have a 2,5 meter fuselage section of a B17 in Bod? which was recovered in France.
Just a few weekends ago (in august) they recovered the remains of Norduyn Norseman Mk.VI. Serienummer: 44-70546, C/N: 811. That was the project that the Bod? museum did directly after the trip where they recovered remains for the Ju 88 project (4 wrecks were searched). In addition to that at least two other Ju 88 wrecks have been visited this summer by the same guys. One of these days I'll do something on my website with photos I took from the expedition to the 4 Ju 88 wrecks.
/Mikael
: Thanks Paul,
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: Looks like some pretty intact stuff remains out there.
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: Question:
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: What is such a historic heap of wreckage still doing out t
: here, get it down and properly on display.
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: Cees