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Airfield. During the war it was stripped of usable equipment, and the rest of the wreckage was left where it had landed (part of which can still be seen). It was originally named "Bunny Hop", but was carrying the name "Flying Wolf" at the time of its final flight. In the late 1990s its wings were recovered by the B-24 Liberator Restoration Fund for use in the restoration of B-24M Liberator A72-176.
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as a training aircraft for new B-24 crews. It was scrapped in 1948 and it was sold to George Toye, a Moe photographer who transported the fuselage to his property in
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