1943 Crash site of A-20B sn. 41-3013 - South Greenland

[Chappie]

I just found this thread. It's very interesting. My first thought was "Has it been recovered?!" With the talents of warbird restorers these days it seems anything can be made airworthy again.


Chappie

[Mikkel M]

No organised recovery of the entire plane has been attempted since the crash. The info about 13013 disappearing into the undercast in a spin makes perfectly sense since the shaddered remains indicates an almost vertical impact. I'm guessing that the procedure must have been something like recovering the bodies, weaponry and munitions, log books and anything containing military or personal information, that wasn't destroyed in the explosion and fire.

The wreck is relatively accessible, half an hour on foot away from the nearest sheep farm of Ipiutaq. Remaining removable parts have been collected by locals over time. As you can see on some of the photos quite a lot of locals and tourists have made inscriptions in the paint work.

As seen on photo in link below, airplane parts also made their way into the local architecture. The window stems from the "Alabama Exterminator" a B-17E en route from Goose Bay to Bluie West 8, Kangerlussuaq, in 1942. It ran out of fuel and had to ditch near the town of Aasiaat. This aircraft has been recovered.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_ ... directlink

http://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/crash260642.htm

[Jon Petersen]

Pictures in original posting reinstalled!


Jon

[Pogmusic]

As this is an early "B" model, I'm sure there are enough pieces to recover to make patterns for a rebuild of a bigger project.

[FrankZappa]

Hello fellow Warbird fans. I am helping a friend of mine research this exact crash, his Uncle was a gunner on this A20 and sadly died in this crash along with the pilot and second gunner as you all know. His last name is Quinlivan. We would like to see some pictures of the wreckage and crash site but the dropbox links from Jon Petersen come back as deleted for me. Also the picasaweb link posted by Mikkel M gives me an Error 404. I realize this thread is 11 years old but I saw that Jon Petersen up dated it in March of 2020 so I thought maybe, just maybe he could see this and post those photos again. Thank you very much, FrankZappa

[airnutz]

Ditto on the Dropbox photos.."File Deleted" FZ...mebbee you could hum a few bars of "The Torture Never Stops" unti JP shows up to fix it?

[FrankZappa]

Ditto on the Dropbox photos.."File Deleted" FZ...mebbee you could hum a few bars of "The Torture Never Stops" unti JP shows up to fix it?

Be glad to.......
A tiny light from a window hole
A hundred yards away
That's all they ever get to know
About the regular life in the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbtZqEyE7U

[FrankZappa]

I emailed Mikkel M.and he was kind enough to send me all the photos that were taken of this
Douglas A-20B wreckage #41-3013. Here is a post at Imgur with all of them.
https://imgur.com/gallery/rxJzSsj
Rest In Peace
1Lt. Harvey A. Crider, pilot
SSgt. Joseph B. Quinlivan, gunner
SSgt. Lorren L. Noel, gunner