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

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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