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Maybe it was so the rudder would be able to turn the plane (twist the cable) to set it on the launcher?View of the view of the observer riding aft of a Vought OS2U Kingfisher aboard the South Dakota (BB-57) while being
transferred to the catapult off Scapa Flow, 1943.
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Hey!!!!! I see my wife sun bathing nude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!View of the view of the observer riding aft of a Vought OS2U Kingfisher aboard the South Dakota (BB-57) while being
transferred to the catapult off Scapa Flow, 1943.
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17 years later, on The Ides of March...View attachment 691525
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Soldat Peter Burch in Europa, 1944-'46, meistens in Frankfurt am Main, 1945.
Thirty-five years ago or so, my first wife and I were driving through Kingman, AZ and I remembered having seen a photo of P-40s stacked up on their noses awaiting scrappers after the war. Maybe the scene in "Best Years Of Their Lives " was filmed there, too- I don't know. I asked where the airfield had been and we were directed to the top of the hill above the city. We stopped and I asked one of the older fellows if that was where all those planes had been scrapped. He said "Yes, it had been a huge operation, pilots flew the planes in, landed, took their logbooks, and walked away." That must have been an emotional moment for many of their pilots & crew members. He said that the first buyers of a lot of surplus aircraft simply drained the high-octane Av gas from the tanks and re-sold them to another buyer who removed the platinum-tipped spark plugs from the engine(s), and then sold them... and so on down the line. Until they were smelted down for the aluminum and steel alloys.B-17G K8-G (in back) 42-102593 of the 398th Bomb Group. K8-G had one hundred missions to its credit and survived the war. Returned to the US to be scrapped at Kingman Arizona.
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