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2014-08-15

Sandbar Mitchell : Acquisition of a long forgotten B-25J

B-25J Sandbar Mitchell Restoration's photo.

Impossible seems not to be in the vocabulary nor the brain of B-25 Mitchell adepts 



B-25J Sandbar Mitchell Restoration 
The Warbirds Of Glory Museum is excited to announce the acquisition of a long forgotten B-25J. Abandoned in Nome, Alaska during WWII, B-25J 44-28898 was one of many B-25s delivered to USSR under Roosevelt's Lend/Lease program. The USA ferried the aircraft as far as Fairbanks where the official hand-off would occur. The Russians then prepared it for the long journey from Fairbanks to the USSR, with a stop in Nome and then across the Bering Straits into Siberia.
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