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I moved to Boise in mid-1978 and the concrete pedestal was still in the park.

I happened upon some burned remnants of it at a local scrapyard...not much left but still identifiable as an Invader.

The scrap yard on the SE part of town (over by the locomotive factory) was filled with interesting stuff, a few WWII-era military vehicles (I was there looking for a M38A1 post-war Jeep , the military variant of the CJ-5).

Also at the yard was a more or less intact F-86L with lots of non-crash body damage. It may have had ID ANG markings, I'm not sure.
At that time the ANG was flying the RF-4C, but they had a F-102 on a stick alongside the freeway near the airport.

On Gowan field, a B-25 was slowly being disassembled, I have a slide somewhere of just its center section. According to Scott Thompson's book, B-25 in Civil Service, it has survived somewhere.

Back then, B-17s came to town during fire season and TBMs were plentiful in the area, there was a huge lot of them for sale in Lewiston... going for about $15,000 apiece. Some of my B-17 photos are in Thompson's Final Cut.

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Two contemporary accounts; ironically the local papers had a lot of mentions of A-26s fighting forest fires in the area at that time:




No photos, but newspapers.com doesn't seem to have any Boise papers.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)