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B-17 & B-25 Visit: We Need Volunteers!

  We Need Volunteers! We’re expecting 10,000 visitors during this week-long visit of the B-17 and B-25. If you can volunteer to help, please let us know. Phone: 204-786-5503 or email:...

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Crisis in the Cockpit

by John L. Frisbee The co-pilot, John Morgan, had two alternatives: pull the plug on a wounded friend or fight him for control of the stricken B-17. In 1940, with war raging in Europe and the United...

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Wess McIntosh and the Canadian Flying Fortresses

The only thing Wess McIntosh ever wanted to do was fly. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1916, McIntosh earned his pilot’s license at age 18, funding his flying lessons with the inheritance from his late...

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Flying Fortresses of the Arctic

“We operated such monsters as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress,” recounts John Smith, photo survey pilot with Kenting Aviation Ltd. in a 1995 Canadian Aviation Historical Society article. In the late...

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The B-25 Mitchell

December, 1945, Air Training After five years of continuous and increasing service with the Allied Air Forces, the North American B-25 Mitchell has terminated production with the 3,208th machine off...

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The Story of Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey rolled off the Douglas assembly line in late 1944, and was accepted by the U.S. Army Air Force on March 13, 1945. Manufactured too late to see service in the European war, the...

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B-17 and B-25 WW II Bombers Have Landed!

“Sentimental Journey”, the B-17 bomber that was here in 2013, will be returning to the museum along with “Maid in the Shade”, a B-25. Both aircraft are part of the Commemorative Air Force, Arizona...

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