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 Post subject: B-24 Pacific Vamp
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Anyone have any info on this aircraft?

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m charters wrote:
Anyone have any info on this aircraft?

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judging from the nose anyway
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 Post subject: B-24 "Pacific Vamp"
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"Pacific Vamp" was B-24D-20-CO 41-24168.

See: http://www.b24bestweb.com/pacificvamp1.htm

and: http://www.b24bestweb.com/valhalla.htm

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c-87?? note the solid nose.

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Tom,

She was General Truman Landon's private barge when that photo was taken.

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Do any photos exist of the whole aircraft? Check out that big arrow painted on the side in the photo. Pretty neat.

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