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Re: Freedman Field/Lex Crally
Posted by Dick Phillips on Tue Apr 06, 2004 02:51:42 PM
In reply top Re: Freedman Field/Lex Crally posted by Richard Allnutt on Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:33:25 AM
: Speaking of the Pax river dump, there was a Arado 234 in t
: here, and also the Bell XFL-1 Aerobonita (the tail dragger
: Navy variant of the P-39 Aeracobra). Rob I believe you ar
: e right in that parts of these aircraft stick out of the m
: ud from time to time.
:
: Cheers,
: Richard
:
: PS.The Freeman Field digs yielded a lot of badly damaged a
: nd corroded parts. They were very interesting though. Lots
: of German propellers, and the tail section of a Fw-190 be
: ing some of the parts I saw photographs of.
:
: : Hi All,
: :
: : The story your thinking of is Freedman Field, this is we
: re
: : alot of the German aircraft were test flown and after t
: he
: : ir testing was done alot were simply broken up and burie
: d.
: :
: :
: : In the late 90s Lex(yes the same person who the USN are
: tr
: : ying railroad) for four of the dump sites.
: :
: : He did'nt find whole aircraft but did find some neat ite
: ms
: : .
: :
: : Also at NAS Pax River out at the end of the active the U
: SN
: : buried alot of German aircraft I remeber my Dad telling
: m
: : e that ever couple of years the tide would expose them a
: nd
: : the Navy would go out and put some more dirt on them. I
: f
: : you ask the Navy their official word is No Comment.
: :
: : Cheers Rob
From Dick Phillips
RE: Freeman Field recoverys
There are two places I know of to read the reports of the digging at Freeman Field in the past 6 years. One is the book, FORGOTTEN FIELDS OF AMERICA Vol II, by Lou Thole, and the other is the two reports I wrote myself on the subject.
I was on hand for all the expeditions as a historian and photographer. I have a two part story that was published in the newsletter of the TWIN CITIES AERO HISTORIAN, our local IPMS/AAHS affiliated group. I will be glad to supply copies of those stories to anyone who would liike a copy.
However, hold off for about a week on any requests, as I will be in Florida for the T-6 clinic at Sebring and for Sun N Fun at Lakeland until April 15th.