Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Babalonian on June 11, 2010, 05:45:49 PM
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She's back home finally!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-swamp-ghost,0,4765119.story
http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/b-17e-bomber-swamp-ghost-returns-home/
http://www.theswampghost.com/
This B-17 was recently salvaged from a New Guinea swamp. She went down after a raid on Rabaul on Feb 23rd, 1942. This is truely a great day for us classic bird lovers to have this aircraft back home where it can begin to be restored, it's one of only four B-17Es known. Other than this individual B-17's notable participation in one of the first long-range attacks on Japan after Pearl Harbor, it's also one of the most notable B-17s in U.S. history as being one of the infamous B-17s that made up the flight from California to Pearl Harbor, scheduled to arive in the early hours of Dec 7th, 1941 and that arived at their destination mid-attack. Of which the first wave of attacking Japanese aircraft detected on radar were mistaken for being this scheduled flight of friendly B-17s.
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Very cool!
:salute
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Found a better news story covering today's events (big surprise, LA Times is going down the crapper) and updated the post with it.
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Very cool! Hope to see it airworthy and on the airshow circuit. :rock
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Really cool