[Milsurplus] [ARC5] SCR-522 Playing.

[Brenda Gentry]

A pervasive tale I heard many times during my youth in Appilachia 
decades ago was of a crashed B-25 in WW2.  It went down, all the crew 
parachuted out safely, and it crashed in the isolated   sparsely 
populated mountains. Before the AAF could reach it, the locals had 
grabbed everything they could-  including the machine guns and 
ammunition. Folks there are very independent,  moonshining  and 
bootlegging were a serious industry serving the many "dry" areas, and 
the Feds were terrified about facing those guns.  They were never found.

       B. Gentry, KA2IVY


On 4/23/25 6:49 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> I think the plane would have been a write-off, with
>
> instruments and such removed. My father was on Corsica and went out to 
> see a crash-landed B-25 which was stripped and written off. Of course 
> i do not know the exact likes of the geography
>
> where this plane was crashed. Civilians had been thru the plane after 
> the USAAF people and had opened the boxes of chaff, thinking there 
> might be some good stuff inside.
>
> -Hue Miller
>
>
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