Aircraft Graveyard Scene from ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’

Blimey! I’d have worked there…..for free!!! 😀

Amazing, too, that the aircraft were being melted down for the same purpose both sides of the Atlantic – to make aluminium (sorry… aluminum) homes…
A GIFT FROM THE SKIES

I’d never seen that movie, or clip. I’m astonished. I’ll hunt down the movie.

A number of the B-17s visible at 2:36 appear to have been YB-40s from the modified upper fuselages.

There is a good page on Aerovintage HERE with some of the airframes’ identities, along with their location during filming (Cal Aero Field, Chino, California).

Something else from the film I always like to see is the interior shots of the B-17 they hitch a ride in has the fittings for the H2X PFF radar in place of the ball turret. 😉

All the best,
PB

Almost the same deeply nostalgic feeling as in 12 O’Clock High, when Dean Jagger walks around RAF Barford St John as a civilian after the war at the start of the movie.
The scrappies didn’t waste much time – it was only 1946!