TRAINS: Where diesels go to die

Storage yards filled with retired diesel locomotives from all over North America. There are some real antiques in this footage, with some of these units being seventy to eighty years old! Makes one sad for some odd reason.

Date posted to YouTube: February 16, 2024
Length: 23 minutes, 30 seconds

- Pseudo Boethius

ARTICLE: "Air Force Museum Unveils Restored Memphis Belle"

Wednesday, July 04, 2018

A news article I found about the unveiling of the Memphis Belle at it's new home at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio:

"Following a 13-year restoration effort, the National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF) in Dayton, Ohio, publicly unveiled the newly restored Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle on May 17, 2018, exactly 75 years after its crew completed its historic 25th bombing mission over Nazi-controlled Europe in 1943. The subject of a World War II bond tour and several full-length feature films, the Belle became an American icon as the first B-17 Flying Fortress to achieve the 25 combat mission mark over occupied Europe and return to the United States without a crewmember killed."

Read the full article:  Air Force Museum Unveils Restored Memphis Belle

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YOUTUBE: Memphis Belle Unveiling

Wednesday, July 04, 2018



Length: 00:04:59

I did not know this:  on May 17, 2018, 75 years after the plane finished it's 25th mission, the actual plane was put on display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. 

I first heard about the Memphis Belle, and saw the famous documentary on that plane, at that very museum when I was a child! 

Synchronicity.

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