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syscom3 said:
B-17G 42-97636 of 401st BG after crash landing at Deenethorpe on Feb 18 1945. Aircraft was salvaged a year later.

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TOLD ya not to try to do donuts on the field, but did you listen?--Noooo not you--- so now you explain to the old man how it happened----geesh

P.S. of course I misread the crash location as "Dumbledore"
 
Much interesting info on these flights. One source said the pilot and navigator were later arrested in USSR for espionage as they knew the Nav route to the US. There is a second ANT-25 lost somewhere along the polar route to the US. It has been years since I read the articles about these flights, so memory fades may exist. Maybe "global warming" will reveal where it went down along with other notable aircraft. There is an ANT-25 repro in a Russian museum.
 
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