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So...I love to research and the net is a great thing. However; most of you probably don't know that I made money as a detective for 11 years and worked as a contractor for an alphabet agency doing investigative work. I mention this because I think that if you want to run down rumors of buried aircra...

Apparently Dry Martini has some information about the Rockford aircraft: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5444&sid=b87210d05aaac738402bf1c57b477726&start=15 Not much I admit, but since there was a local rumor and there really was a B-17 in the area, it might still be ...

As she is today: Via Wordpress.com's article on Bataan.

In New Guinea sits the remains of the most historic B-25 still in existance. Almost completely ignored by the warbird world. I actually talked to a man in Austrialia who attempted to recover it 2 years ago and was shocked to learn it's history. He thought it was just another B-25. Surfing the net I ...

Thanks Steve! Without doubt, you are the man on this subject! Question about Combat hours. I'm retiring from the Army after 40 years. I have 1132 combat hours on my books. Now, that does not mean I got shot at on each of those missions. Just that I COULD have been shot at. The regs have changed over...

Nice article that gives what I believe is not a well known history of this AC. 94 missions before being flown back to US. 586 combat hours. It really makes me think of one of the 'Pacific Tramps" which was noted as having over 1000 combat hours, well over a thousand combat hours. Meaning it could we...

Found this article in an antiques store then looked up and found the same article online . It is a bried article about scrapping in Albaquerque. Which we all know is rather rate. There are a series of photo's scrapping a B-17E. One of you trainer guys will probably figure it out from the number 47 o...

Not sure why the first pic posted three times! Sorry! Oh, and as always, found it here:https://www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org/phot ... m?PID=6652

I came across these photo's from the Album of a Loyd Nutall, while browsing:

I talked to a man who just went and looked at it this last year. He says it's still there but pretty picked over. You could probably get it cheap!!!

Could this be "42-31974" "Bomb Boogie"? She survived the war and was brought home to the US. Noted as at Kingman in 45. A war memorial maybe? She has the same type of nose art as "belle of the brawl". Or at least one of them.

it sure looks like this one: Found it here:http://acepilots.com/planes/nose-art-b17.html

One more, I guess this one was of an historic aircraft. I have another in color of a squadron mate taken about the same time

I picked up a bunch of negatives and some prints from a yard sale this weekend. Most are negatives and slides from 1939 to about the Korean War. There is even a color slide of an O-52. The only "warbird" print is this one of the P-51 Galloping ghost, with a P-63 and another P-51 in the background. A...

There are a couple of tricks to use The first is to look for the sub units records. The second is to look for the weapons projects files. Those usually have pics of the results of the weapons test on various aircraft, vehicles ect. You need to speak Army Beurocracy. And with 39 years in the Army I k...