UPL 16041
IMAGEPhoto of 38-215 in Nome Alaska picking up native made parkas for the U. S. Army. Bundles are visible in the waist gun blister. Through letters, personal journals, after action reports and government records 38-216, later nicknamed “Old Seventy,” can be followed from her November, 1939 assignment to March Field to her fatal Aleutian crash July 18, 1942. During her life she played a number of roles: test platform for cold weather operations, patrol plane under Navy control, bomber and weather reconnaissance aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
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