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Yesterdays Air Force must have left one B-26 fuselage in Million Dollar Valley.

A little more than halfway down the page of this link, is a link titled CAME BACK which if you scroll to the bottom, there appears to be a Marauder, although its identified as a B-25.

http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/ensign2/lands ... 18_82.html

Maybe this is already well-known, but it was sure news to me.
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I'd have to agree that it's a Marauder. Never seen a B-25 with a bubble like that.

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What groups do you think would be first in line to try and get a Marauder back in the skies?

Collings Foundation?, Flying Heritage Collection?, C.A.F.?, Yankee Air Museum.?

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Not the CAF. Even if they had one they would just sell it.
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Always wish they could attempt to data plate restore that one. :roll:

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Are you guys talking about the image that looks like a large propane tank?Anybody got a better pic?

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No...we're talking about this...doesn't look like any propane tank I ever saw.

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Hmmmm, sure that isn't an early B-25 with the aft dorsal turret? fuselage looks more slab sided like the 25 than the rounder Marauder? Better pictures are in order! Not an Oil Tank I'm pretty sure! :shock:

When was that pic shot, the Marauders were recovered in the early 70's but that article was talking 82? Mysterious!!
http://www.b-26marauderarchive.org/da/MDV/MDV.htm
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Looks like a B-25 to me too.

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I read an article in the early 80s? about the recovery effort. I'm not entirely certain, but I recall that they did leave some parts in the Valley. Perhaps this aft fuselage is what they didn't get out. The fuselage looks circular to me.

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Could this be the remains of the one that the nosewheel collapsed and the nose section was badly crushed?

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http://www.b-26marauderarchive.org/da/MDV/MDV.htm

Ya'll should read this. I bet it's one of these B-26's the guy talks about.

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Could this be the remains of the one that the nosewheel collapsed and the nose section was badly crushed?


I'm pretty sure that one is Kermit's. If I remember correctly, the rest of the flipped aircraft was in better sahpe and more complete, except for the nose. Part of the long restoration involved grafting the nose off of one of the other fuselages.

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