
Boeing B-17 Flying
Fortress
B-17C s/n 40-2047
2 NOV 1941
Tells Peak, 25 east of Georgetown CA
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| The main wing in 1999. | Craig Fuller in front of the center section with the bomb bay door in the background |
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Left, The main wing as it looked when TIGHAR surveyed the site in 2001. |
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| The trailing edge of the waist gunner's port. | The rest of the waist gunner's port. |
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| The empennage. | From the time I first visited he empennage in 1999 it had been moved flattened slightly when TIGHAR surveyed the site in 2001. Although I accredited the flattening to snow rather than vandalism. |
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| The insignia with a red dot was remarkably well preserved. | The left wing was almost a mile away from the empennage. |
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