Any update on the Atka B24-D

Django · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:03 am

And now of course we know there is Hadley's Harem, also a surviving D model.

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:04 pm

Django wrote:

And now of course we know there is Hadley's Harem, also a surviving D model.

Sorry for my ignorance on this but please explain. (Hoping I'm not missing a joke here)

Tim

Django · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:22 pm

Tim, no joke. Google Hadley's Harem. Recovered in Turkey, a Ploesti survivor. Very few people know about it, which always surprises me, especially here.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... p?p=345051

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:33 pm

<edit> Looks like Django submitted his post while I was still trolling the net for pics!

B-24D 41-24311 "Hadley's Harem" was one of the Liberators flown on the infamous low level raid on the Ploesti oil refineries on 8/1/43. She was badly shot up ditched off the coast of Turkey, and much of the wreckage was recovered in 1995, along with the remains of two of her crew. The cockpit section is apparently all that is currently on display in a museum in Istanbul (not Constantinople.)

SN

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:58 pm

Now I remember! Thanks for reminding me.

Tim

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:39 pm

Isn't there also a nearly intact (broken in half) B-24 on a mountain in Java? I remember seeing an aerial photo of it here a long time ago.

george · **Joined:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:20 pm **Posts:** 435

Chris - I believe that the Java Lib photo actually turned out to be the one on Atka. Just like the Great Sitkin Lib pictured so often actually turned out to be the one on Ilak.

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