Swamp Ghost and the B-seventeen Flying Fortress that sat in a Papua New Guinea swamp for sixty years
The Swamp Ghost B-17 sat in a Papua New Guinea swamp for 64 years before a dramatic recovery brought it to Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum.
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Swamp Ghost the B-seventeen E Flying Fortress found in a Papua New Guinea swamp sixty-seven years after she crash-landed in nineteen forty-two
The story of Swamp Ghost, a B-17E recovered from a Papua New Guinea swamp 67 years after its 1942 crash landing.
TaildraggerThe Phantom Fortress and the B-seventeen that landed itself in a Belgian field with no crew aboard
A B-17 bomber flew over 100 miles and landed in a Belgian field in 1944 with no crew aboard after all hands bailed out over Germany.
TaildraggerSwamp Ghost the B-seventeen Flying Fortress pulled from a Papua New Guinea swamp after sixty-four years
Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that crash-landed in Papua New Guinea in 1942, survived 64 years in a swamp before its extraordinary recovery.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle B-seventeen and the thirteen-year restoration that brought America's most famous bomber home
The Memphis Belle's thirteen-year restoration preserved combat scars from 25 missions over occupied Europe.
TaildraggerThe Phantom Fortress and the B-seventeen that landed itself with nobody on board
A crewless B-17 Flying Fortress landed itself in a Belgian field in 1944 after all nine crew members bailed out.
TaildraggerThe Greatest Show on Turf at Geneseo and the grass-strip warbird airshow that stops time
The National Warplane Museum airshow in Geneseo, New York, delivers an intimate warbird experience on grass that larger shows can't match.
RampSwamp Ghost, the B seventeen Flying Fortress pulled from the jungles of Papua New Guinea after sixty-seven years
The Swamp Ghost B-17E survived 67 years in a Papua New Guinea swamp to become the most original Flying Fortress left on earth.
TaildraggerOld Six Sixty-Six and the Buka mission, two Medals of Honor in a single airplane
The story of Old 666, the patched-together B-17 whose June 1943 Buka mission earned two Medals of Honor in a single flight.
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