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Was that plane checked for radiation? Blast damage from Yucca Flats sounds kind of dangerous.Top view of Rescue Boeing B-17 Bomber next to a Stinson L-5 8x10 WWII Photo 101a | eBay
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Baugher B-17G-95-DL 44-83722 TB-17H. Assigned to 8th RU, Hamilton AFB, CA. Assigned to 1414th BU, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1948
Assigned to 1060th Rescue Flight, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Jun 1948.
Assigned to 2153rd RU, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Sep 2, 1948. Redesignated SB-17G Sep 3, 1948
Assigned to AMC, Olmsted AFB, PA Jul 20, 1949. Converted to B-17H, later redesignated SB-17G and assigned to 2nd ERS
as a search and rescue aircraft. Deliberately subjected to blast and radiation damage during three nuclear
tests at Yucca Flats, NV. Remains sold 1965 to Aviation Specialties.
Sold to Kermit Weeks in 1985 and put in partial storage at
Ocotillo Wells, CA. In 1997 was at Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL
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