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Old 29th October 2021, 19:14
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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes

I assure you there was a Wright Field in 1952 as I flew in and out riding in a USAF C-46 that year and spent two weeks there in a training camp. Wright Patterson Air Force Base includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. I am certain the AFB is still an active installation today, although not certain that there are still flight operations at Wright field That visit was during the fighting in Korea and I saw a captured Yak-9 and was able to climb around an Il-10. I also remember seeing the Lippisch DM-1 glider and several derelict prototypes including XP-54, B-36, etc..



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