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Thanks, a real B-17 in a barn story!
Posted by bdk on Mon Apr 01, 2002 08:51:41 PM
In reply top Re: B-17E in Galt, Il? Any new info? posted by Matt on Mon Apr 01, 2002 08:23:31 PM
: Try this http://www.heavybombers.com/b-17restored-422595.a
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: : Very few B-17Es survive today. One of them is 41-2595, w
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: : ch had been converted in 1944 to a transport under the d
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: : to a junkyard where it sat forlornly in pieces for many
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: : ars. In 1985, the bits and pieces of 41-2595 were recove
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: : ort in Illinois, where they await reassembly and restora
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