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Great WWII IH photo (Kodachrome color)

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62champ

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Looks like it could have been taken just last month...

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Going by the rear wheel weights it's a 6. All the W's used different rear wheel weights. Beautiful picture. Sam
 
This is the caption with the photo:

October 1942. Kansas City, Kansas. “B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
 
If I had my choice of having that airplane now, or the tractor, I would have to take the airplane. Probably worth about $2,000,000 or more. The tractor might be worth $3,000.

Gene
 
(quoted from post at 16:44:56 10/25/12) If I had my choice of having that airplane now, or the tractor, I would have to take the airplane. Probably worth about $2,000,000 or more. The tractor might be worth $3,000.

Gene
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The B-25 would probably cost someone $3000 a month on storage and maintenance...
 
The military used a lot of tractors. They used big Case tractors for towing big artillery weapons to and from the firing range. This was in 1951 before I was drafted. The tractors had dual wheels on the rear and had a road gear. Once the firing was completed the weapons were cleaned and had hot cosmolene poured inside the gun tube. Then they were shipped to Korea. They also used tractors to mow the firing ranges that had a shelter made from armor plate to protect the driver in case they hit a dud. Hal
 
That caption is really interesting to me. I have worked maintanence shutdowns in the building they built those planes. It is owned by Certainteed and they now produce and store batt insulation there.
 
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