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Well LBA has been tried without luck , file is destroyed.

I have found the frame number and James Gray is 99% sure that the aircraft is 42-99252.
That plane was manufactured in March 1944 and delivered to the 12th Air Force in Italy. It was condemned for salvage in April 1946 and sold to an unspecified entity via the foreign Liquidation Commission (FLC) that was a branch of the U.S. government which handled disposal of military assets after WWII. This certainly accounts for the airplane surviving in Europe after WWII without it being scrapped as many of them were.

And yesterday I also got some history over the phone from Flying Club Nürnberg.

So at present that is it for now.