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Re: Baltimore anywhere?

Posted by Tony on Fri Nov 09, 2001 07:50:28 AM

In reply top Baltimore anywhere? posted by Gregory Alegi on Fri Nov 09, 2001 06:45:58 AM

The RAF(60 Sqdn) were using examples for photomapping in Kenya, after the war until 1948, and they certainly didn't bring them back from there. I also remember reading somewhere, about the remains of a forcelanded "Twin engined" bomber , on the slopes of Mount Kenya. This was a reported sighting from 1996. Also, there was a newspiece last year, of a Turkish diving team discovering a Twin engined bomber, some way off Cyprus, but once again, type unknown.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I will get digging

Tony


: For any enthusiast, the recent trend of rediscovering and/
: or recovering aircraft which were thought extinct is very
: exciting. Each of us can make a mental list of reborn type
: s, from Buffalo to ... TBD?
: Unfortunately, it seems that the Martin Baltimore has yet
: to join the "Born Again Warbirds Club". The type played an
: important role in the North African/Middle Eastern/Italia
: n fronts and I understand that it ranks pretty high on the
: wish list of the RAF Museum. In Italy, where we have a go
: od fin and an upper turret, the type is also of interest a
: s the first bomber supplied by the Allies to the Italian A
: ir Force in 1944.
: It is just so hard to believe that none of the 1700 or so
: built survives anywhere, in any rebuildable form. Does any
: one know of wrecks, components, or anything at all?
: Gregory

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