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For those of you who will be restoring those OS2U's soon and want some advice on how to truck them home these photos should help. Below A series of eleven photographs showing members of the Fifth Special Naval Construction Battalion craning OS2U Kingfishers of Scouting Squadron (VS) 56 onto trucks and transporting them from Andrew Lake to Clam Lagoon at Naval Air Station (NAS) Adak in the Aleutians. c 1944

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Great pictures
See that they "chained up"

Yeah, but those are the Summer chains-

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Brrrrrrrrr!

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"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
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"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

Up there you can transport an airplane on a truck.
No traffic, no trees...no power poles.

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Great pics! I'd been trying to figure out how to get my OS2U out of the backyard and over to the nearest lake.

I really wish somebody would rebuild a flying Kingfisher on floats. Hey, sounds like it'd be right up Kermit's alley....


SN

Should be.

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