WW2 Plane Found!

probable Canadian connection too

These aircraft were flown to Edmonton, where they were inspected and additional things like radios installed, then insignia painted on, and sent northward to Alaska and Russia.

I am sure if SMELLIE sees this post, he can contribute a lot more information, as his Father was in charge of the repair and overhaul shop in Edmonton where this work was done.
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More Info on a Russian site of the plane's recovery and story of the pilot.

ht tp://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm
 
Lot's of aircraft went missing along that route and there are still some out there. Lancaster museum in Nanton has a .50 Browning with a bent barrel jacket and barrel from a bomber that was found years later. Must have hit the ground REALLY hard.:D

Not WWll, but this one is really interesting as well and there is some mystery attached to it, Like what happened to the bomb ?

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/BC/broken_arrow.htm

Grizz
 
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I love all the equipment that the US made and sent to Russia. Obviously none of it ever saw combat :) The Great Patriotic War was an all Soviet effort!

What would have been terribly ironic is if the US took Patton's advice they would have been fighting against their own equipment made by nice young ladies in Nw York.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Lot's of aircraft went missing along that route and there are still some out there. Lancaster museum in Nanton has a .50 Browning with a bent barrel jacket and barrel from a bomber that was found years later. Must have hit the ground REALLY hard.:D

Not WWll, but this one is really interesting as well and there is some mystery attached to it, Like what happened to the bomb ?

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/BC/broken_arrow.htm

Grizz[/QUOT

neat site.....
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Something like 70 missing aircraft in BC alone.

More important for the Soviets was lend-lease of trucks and key chemicals for making explosives, without which they would have been in deep poop.
 
Wow, great video. I can't believe all the pilot's stuff was still in there.

Perhaps they can restore some of the logbook pages and figure out what happened to the plane ?
 
Coyote Ugly said:
Interesting story:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid34757272001?bclid=0&bctid=87804472001
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WOW !
Thanx for the post -

But it was still a sh!tty aircraft - thats why so many were sent to the russkies (better than most of what they had though,except the Stormovik) -

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Grizzly Adams said:
Lot's of aircraft went missing along that route and there are still some out there. Lancaster museum in Nanton has a .50 Browning with a bent barrel jacket and barrel from a bomber that was found years later. Must have hit the ground REALLY hard.:D

Not WWll, but this one is really interesting as well and there is some mystery attached to it, Like what happened to the bomb ?

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/BC/broken_arrow.htm

Grizz
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Reading the provided article indicates that the bomb was jettisoned and exploded to ensure it would never be recovered.

The bomb was nuclear capable only if it had the nuclear core installed. On a training mission like this one, the bomb had a LEAD core installed to give it a similar weight to a nuke.
 
enefgee said:
That 37mm would be an absolute beast against light armour and half tracks.
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If you can hit it and have enough ammo, most aircraft carried only seconds worth of ammo, the bigger the bullet the less you have.

the British 20mm was the best all round aircraft gun of the war.
 
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