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Old 19th March 2024, 10:31
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This was B-17F 42-5407 missing 9 Oct 1943 and crashed near Kiel.
Seller's suggestion the remains were located in Berlin doesn't sound correct....
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Old 19th March 2024, 12:06
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This was B-17F 42-5407 missing 9 Oct 1943 and crashed near Kiel.
Seller's suggestion the remains were located in Berlin doesn't sound correct....
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A similar picture is in HS Stapfer's Stangers in a strange land" p. 49 and captionned as taken in Paris-Nanterre Beutepark 5.
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Old 19th March 2024, 14:37
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A similar picture is in HS Stapfer's Stangers in a strange land" p. 49 and captionned as taken in Paris-Nanterre Beutepark 5.
Almost as strange. Why would they drag a crashed B-17 which came down some 11 mls NE of Kiel
down to Paris?

Makes no sense to me....

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Old 19th March 2024, 17:16
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To me, this looks like a recovery and scrapping operation. In the immediate post-war period, Allied aircraft were stacked/assembled in this way for recovery of metal in Germany.
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Old 19th March 2024, 19:43
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