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To: robroys woman

Search ww2 plane found on Palau. Different sites are all saying Avenger. I can see that with wing shape, long greenhouse and rear gun.


65 posted on 08/09/2017 12:40:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

On third or fourth look though those sharply curved wing roots don’t look Avenger.


67 posted on 08/09/2017 12:43:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

The wing root, where it attaches to the fuselage does not match an Avenger.............


68 posted on 08/09/2017 12:44:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Bonemaker

Well, if it is, they seriously modified the wing root. It is not a factory version.

Actually, if you look at the JPG I posted, there is almost nothing similar in the wing of the crashed plane and a TBM avenger.

Caveat: This plane is so deteriorated that I really would need to see a lot of pictures from different angles to know what it is. I am confident it is not a B-17, a Sopwith Camel or a B-52. I can confidently identify some planes that it is NOT. I’m just having a harder time, with a single photo, determining what plane it IS. But that large radius at the wing root is really suggesting that it can’t be the avenger.

That being said, when I searched on your recommendation, I did find pictures of an avenger, but it looks like different wreckage.


71 posted on 08/09/2017 12:58:30 PM PDT by robroys woman
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