Posted by Patrick on August 01, 2003 at 14:27:10:
My brother and I visited the Tells Peak crashsite of the B-17C for
the first time about a month ago. We found the wing and tail
sections... VERY fascinating. It is a SHAME that someone chopped a big
piece out of the wing and removed the bomb bay doors, and hacked up
various bits of the wing. We were very disapponted to see this.
We had a copy of the original 1941 Army Air Corps crash report that we
used to locate the crash location. The report states that the nose is
located on a ridge south of the tail section. We search around for
about an hour in the thick brush, looking in the location indicated on
the Army map, but we didn't find anything. The Army report also
indicates that the 4 engines are located further south. We didn't
bother looking for these.
Does anyone know if the nose section or engines are still out there. I
haven't seen them mentioned in any of the recent information detailing
this wreck, or seen any pictures of these pieces. Perhaps the Army
salvaged these parts in the 1940's?