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Old 3rd November 2018, 02:23
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Re: P-38 F-1 Glacier Girl with wrong US insignia

No worries Hal.
I suspect the photo you've seen before is of the a/c in the attached pic. I'm not sure about the red dot peeling - it all looks pretty clean in the photo, which looks like it was taken at the time.
If you're interested in the recovery story, have a look at this link (the story is 6 pages) -

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-...tory-19218360/

In it, it says that Smith feathered his props before belly-landing, so the props would not be bent. The pic of Glacier Girl inside the cave they made confirms this.

Cheers
Peter
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