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airmanual
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P-38 if i'm not mistaken.

Ok, taken in the early 70s'. But did is survive and was it recovered ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14844569@N ... 920578225/

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Hmmm...don't see anything on it...but then again!
Here is a link wartime shot, great site, lots of Alaskan pics

http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Sh ... 38_lux.jpg
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airmanual wrote:
P-38 if i'm not mistaken.

Ok, taken in the early 70s'. But did is survive and was it recovered ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14844569@N ... 920578225/

Laurent


or at least a small part of one.
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airmanual wrote:
But did is survive and was it recovered ?

Suggest commenting on the photo and hope the poster knows and responds? Or if he/she is not the photographer can they at least check.
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Thanks for posting a link to that photo. Very interesting. Also interested to hear what happened to it.

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Seems Sheyma was a busy place during WW2 with plenty of P-38's

check out this site;

http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Sh ... -page1.htm

Scroll through the pages and you see a dump site with P-38's in it.

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From the photographer.
It was kind of him to promptly respond to my question.
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Actually, there were either two wrecked planes, or one in pieces.
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My recollection is that it (or they) was a P-38, the kind with the dual fuselage.

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Here are some more photos that the photographer provided.
Interesting stuff!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14844569@N07/sets/72157619156840416/

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Cool photos... looks like there's a wrecked B-29 there. Mostly burned out, but you can definitely see B-29 parts in there. Cool shots of the wrecked Rivet Ball too... there are some really interesting images in the Shemya section.

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Neat pics. The Rivet Ball RC-135S photos are interesting. I'm sure all of her remains are long gone by now?

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From the markings, it would appear to be an SB-29.
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Interesting:

In 1999 I corresponded w/ one of the former base commanders on Shemya, and he said there were no WW2 airplanes there. I asked him how he knew for sure and he just repeated his first statement. Kind of strange.

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Interesting indeed :shock:

In This Google Map Link I can see two airfields, the one on the left looks abandoned. Could this be where the dump the photographer was talking about is?
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