| Burtonwood Planes & Jeeps |
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| | The B17 was autographed by many of the pilots and staff working at Burtonwood in 1944. |
This plane was the 5,000th B-17 Flying Fortress bomber to be built by Boeing during WWII and named "5 GRAND".
To commemorate it, all the workers who worked on it being built wrote their names on it!
It came to Burtonwood as one of over 4,000 received there for operations in Europe between 1942 and late 1945. It saw action with a squadron, then returned to the States and toured a short time before being stored, hoping to be sold, but it was not and was unceremoniously scrapped in about 1948.  | | Williams and Lt Jack Cook by the B-17 "Champ of the European Theatre of Operations'' |
| P-38 Lightening on the ramp. It appears that the nose has been extended - do you know why or where you involved in the work?
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Photograph courtesy Mason Hise | Douglas C124 Globemaster unloading an F-86 Sabre for overhaul . Taken in the mid 1950s.
Photograph courtesy Ron Oldacre | Hawker Hunter 1958
Photograph courtesy Mervyn Robinson |
| | Many of the original Jeeps are still at Burtonwood and form part of the museum. |
 | | This picture was taken during a reunion party. |
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