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Thread: The B-24 Liberator in China -- A side-bar to Jabarootoo's Travel Review, Wings of War and Peace.
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[quote=GUESTPHIL,381032]Of further interest on the Maoershan wreck. The new Guilin Flying Tigers Relics museum, set to open March 23, 2010 near Lin-Gui (S.W. suburban Guilin) will have a room dedicated to wreckage removed from this sight, as well as enlarged individual photos of the crew members. So far, the only group photo of these men was taken against another B-24 aircraft ("TOUGH TITTI") because at the time their plane had the high-resolution radar aboard, and it was then Top-secret, The museum, a Sino-American joint project is being-built into the side of a karst mountain in which is located the Communications cave used by the AVG, 23rd. F/G & 14th. Airforce from 1942 'til Nov '44 when the Japanese army 'captured' this & two other nearby airfields, and the city of Kweilin - There wasn't much left by then. Kweilin had been burned, its Li river bridges destroyed; all 550 buildings at the airbases burned, and the fields rendered useless by demolition. Today, the cave is undergoing restoration; the museum is in finishing stages and a memorial park, lake, and paved parking areas will surround some facsimili buildings - as used by the 1,840 American & Chinese airmen who rotated thru Yang Tong, Ehr Tong & Li Chia Chen's fighter's and bombers-crew's hostels. Well worth a look-see on your next China visit![/quote]
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