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Post #540661 by uncle trav on Sat, Jul 3, 2010 6:41 PM

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Great stuff. Here is a site with the story of the recovery of a very rare P-61 Black Widow night fighter from the mountainous jungles of New Guinea. I was lucky enough to hear the story of the recovery firsthand years ago and handle some artifacts that were recovered.
http://www.maam.org/p61/p61_recovery.htm


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[ Edited by: uncle trav 2010-07-03 18:41 ]