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This site contains numerous photos of crashes of all types of military aircraft in this country. It is really incredible how far afield the debris can be scattered. I think people who are interested in aviation history would like this. Here it is:
http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/search.htm
There was a B25 crash in the Great Smokey Mountains, east of Klingman's Dome, right towards the end of the war. The military police moved right in and picked the site pretty clean but there was still a patch of melted aluminum spread over hundreds of feet and they never found one of the engines. In the 1970s my Civil Air Patrol squadron hiked up there with tools and metal detectors and found the engine - nearly a quarter mile down the mountain and six feet deep in the ground.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
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[SIZE="2"]Had a neighbor who crashed a B-17 into Mount McKinley(Alaska) in 1943 at about 18,000/19,000 ft. elevation,name was Harry Brasher,no survivors. While on the subject of plain crashes,Lake Michigan is loaded with hundreds of crashed planes due to all the training bases that were around in the states bordering the lake,it's a fresh water lake and the planes are in pretty good shape corrosion wise,they finished a salvage and rebuild of a trainer a short time back and they located the Vet who crashed it during training(WWll) and brought him in for the debut of the plane,had it on TV.
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