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To: Northern Yankee

I read the story about it. Also watched a video of reclaiming a B29 from Greenland ice.


14 posted on 02/27/2010 5:47:12 PM PST by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer
Also watched a video of reclaiming a B29 from Greenland ice.

You only saw the first half, and missed the part where they suspended a 5-gallon can of gasoline ABOVE an operating APU in the rear fuselage. Then did some high-speed taxi runs on the ice.

Result: priceless warbird, extra crispy.
15 posted on 02/27/2010 5:50:04 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: SkyDancer

It was in Alaska. Greenland was a stop for aircraft going to the European Theatre. Alaska was a stopover for aircraft going to the Pacific Theatre.

B-29s only fought in the Pacific (with the exception of two B29s that flew through Europe, on their way to India, to scare Hitler.)


18 posted on 02/27/2010 6:37:01 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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