Chanute trainers

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Steve Birdsall
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Chanute trainers

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Things are pretty quiet but an interesting photo of a couple of Chanute trainers turned up on Facebook posted by Steve Leyden, whose father took the photograph.

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Can you read the serial number on the background B-17.

the style of the call numbers (tall and narrow) looks like these are from Hendricks
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This is the best image I can get – there are clues there, but not enough for me to want to take a stab at the RCN. The original poster said his father was an instructor in flight engineer school.
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42-51??
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Wonder if " 10" is 42-5153
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42-5153 is not recorded at Chanute but 42-5158 was asssigned to Chanute August 1943.
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