B-32 Dominator 42-108547

coastdef · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:31 pm

As many of you have probably experienced, sometimes people just drop stuff off they think might interest folks involved with warbirds. Recently, someone left a large pile of original WWII photographs (in the sense they are marked on the back "Official Photograph, If Published Use the Following Credit Line: Photograph by US Army Air Corps) at the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team hangar. This one caught my eye; no idea where it is, although most of the other pictures were taken at Henry Post Field (Fort Sill, OK) during WWII. Obviously this was not!

I'll try to scan some more pictures out of this grouping later; it is mostly observation aircraft.

Regards,

Andy

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:33 pm

More B-32 photos please

I think the serial number is wrong, I believe it is 42-108547, a B-32-25-CF,ship No 591, assigned to Squadron E, 611th BS, AAFPGC, RFC Walnut Ridge.

coastdef · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:12 pm

You are correct on the serial number, just a typo, now corrected :oops:

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Matt Gunsch wrote:

I think the serial number is wrong, I believe it is 42-108547, a B-32-25-CF,ship No 591, assigned to Squadron E, 611th BS, AAFPGC, RFC Walnut Ridge.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:25 pm

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:33 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

Flyin Illini · **Joined:** Tue May 13, 2008 2:38 pm **Posts:** 148

The navy kind of did didnt they? I mean these look strikingly similar to a Pb4y, at least from this view.

lestweforget · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:40 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

Criminal behaviour. Us Brits did it too mind you! Hope we all learn from our mistakes though!!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:33 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

That is not exactly what happened, but thanks for trying to enjoy your hobby of bashing them.

APG85 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:45 am

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

No museum is perfect and they do the best they can with the budgets and facilities they have. I think any museum, given the luxury of hindsight and being able to reflect back through the decades would have made different choices about certain things (if I had been in charge back in 1950)...

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:24 am

mustangdriver wrote:

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

That is not exactly what happened, but thanks for trying to enjoy your hobby of bashing them.

Mustangdriver, How many books do you want me to quote from that all say, that last B-32, that was slated for the Airforce museum was scrapped, in 1947 ?

Robbie Roberts · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:49 am

Looks like the love child of a PB4Y and a B-29...

Neat looking in any case. I had a girlfriend once who's grandfather was looking for a photo of one for years(pre-internet) He had been a crew chief on one!

Robbie

Holedigger · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:04 pm

It's not just aviation museums that "clear out the attic" when space gets tight or money short. Seems the only full preserved Dodo Bird (actual bird not an airplane) skeleton and skin had it's head and feet chopped off and kept while the rest was burned........now they list it as "lost in a fire"!! Shame on Oxford!!!

Hindsight is indeed a cruel thing. It is NOT the military's primary job to preserve old, obsolete equipment for future generations. This I understand, what I do not understand is the red tape and road blocks thrown up by their bureaucracy to allow anyone else to step in and try to preserve history! ie, the Navy insisting that proper storage is immersed in a saltwater bath!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:25 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

That is not exactly what happened, but thanks for trying to enjoy your hobby of bashing them.

Mustangdriver, How many books do you want me to quote from that all say, that last B-32, that was slated for the Airforce museum was scrapped, in 1947 ?

The aircraft was set aside for the Air Force Museum, and accidentally scrapped by the people that worked at the facility. The USAF never told them to scrap it.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:35 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

That is not exactly what happened, but thanks for trying to enjoy your hobby of bashing them.

Mustangdriver, How many books do you want me to quote from that all say, that last B-32, that was slated for the Airforce museum was scrapped, in 1947 ?

Many were offered for sale by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation but no offers were received. So you must blame everyone else for not saving one too. THe B-32 was scrapped in 1949.

DaveG · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:19 pm

Matt Gunsch wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

Man I wish someone saved one of them.

I think that was the job of the Airforce Museum, Oh that's right, they scrapped the last B-32 that had been set aside for them.

How 'bout a New Year's resolution fellas...this is among the most tiresome parts of WIX for me. There is no solution to be had...so just stop picking the scab.

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