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Four more stateside trainers at Walnut Ridge

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:14 am
by Chris Brame
There don't seem to be many shots of B-17s at Walnut Ridge around, but I caught images of four (two IDed by serial) in this newsreel excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhKYLuzyv5g

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Is this Y code a late version of Dyersburg or is it from Williams, AZ? I tried enhancing the serial but it's very blurry; looks like 43-37XXX ending in 42 or 47; 43-37742 was a stateside trainer that last served at Dyersburg and ended up at Walnut Ridge - David, what do you think?

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Left to right: Alexandria, Rapid City and Roswell. The one in the upper left corner might be another Alexandria plane - X K3? - but it's hard to make out.

EDIT: Found an image of Roswell W 091 - it's 44-8091:
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Re: Four more stateside trainers at Walnut Ridge

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:31 pm
by Chris Brame
Edited to add new info.

Re: Four more stateside trainers at Walnut Ridge

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:55 pm
by terveurn
Ordered the film- 4 bucks is about what is was worth. Still not the best, but some interest stuff when you step through it

Y-M2
Y-M2.JPG
X-K4
X-K4.JPG
Triangle-W / letter V
Triangle-W Letter V.JPG

Re: Four more stateside trainers at Walnut Ridge

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:58 pm
by terveurn
44-6347 - ex swiss internee
44-6347.JPG
42-5310
42-5310.JPG
100th BG aircraft - side codes deleted
100th BG Walnut Ridge.JPG