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Re: The airplane in a barn story.

Posted by Mikael on Fri Feb 01, 2002 05:44:08 PM

In reply top The airplane in a barn story. posted by Brad on Fri Feb 01, 2002 04:07:54 PM

Don't forget the English Gladiator that landed on the ice on a lake in Norway during 1940 and then were stored in a shed by a man under the nose of the Germans and then into the 70's. It's now on display at the Bod? museum.

Great story!
/Mikael

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