The items at right at first looked like hose clamps but thanks to Lloyd Foster at last night's EAA chapter dinner, we now know they are 50 cal. ammunition clips, the hardware used to hold machine gun rounds in long belt form. Thanks, Lloyd!
I am also advised by Craig Fuller (www.aviationarchaeology.com) who helped me find the tail number of this bomber, that any scraps of sheet aluminum containing the numerals "32" followed by a letter might also be attributable to a B-24 so on our next group dig we will be specifically looking for that.
Meanwhile the search continues for artifacts held by the public. According to stories the public salvaged quite a few pieces and residents called the Sherrif's Dept. for months afterward to report items found. If we can locate the owners of a few parts and persuade them to loan their finds to the museum we'll be able to mount a display. The same goes for photos. Wreck visitors may have shot pictures of it and those would be invaluable, too.
Are there any people out there with these things? Please call me at 938-0385 if you do or if you would like to participate in our next sweep of the site. If you have a metal detector that would be a big help.
Bruce Batchelder, Editor
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