B-17 crash site pics – Zombie from 2005

We are planning a trip back to the site next month. Can you put me in contact with your brother so I can pin point the location better?

Tried to find the 1942 crash site of the B17 this last week with no luck.

According to the Army crash report that I read it was in Washington not Oregon. Do you have a better idea of where you were. Road or moutain name?

Whoa… back from the dead.

The crash site was definetly in Oregon, but the B-17 was based at Walla Walla. I’ll try to talk to my brother and see if I can get some more specific info. Been awhile since I have been there;) I’ll also try to find the hi-res pics. Don’t know where they are.

Fantastic shots, thanks for posting

There surely is !

Please do post more pics and related info.

Thanks a lot !

Martin

I’ll second that! 😀 More please! :D:D

Finding B17

Tried to find the 1942 crash site of the B17 this last week with no luck.

According to the Army crash report that I read it was in Washington not Oregon. Do you have a better idea of where you were. Road or moutain name?

I’ll post some larger pics when i get a chance if there is interest.

There surely is !

Please do post more pics and related info.

Thanks a lot !

Martin

I could not locate a larger section of the wing, but maybe its around somewhere, however the engines and landing gear are all within a 100′ area, my guess is the rest of the wing burned as there is evidence of fire on some of the remaining structure and the trees around the crash.
The crash in Oregon near Walla Walla, Washington and is located in a wilderness area in the Blue Mountains.
I was guided to the site by my brothers geology proffessor who had spoken and recieved a written history of the crash from a young lookout in one of the areas numerous fire towers. During the summer of 1943 they were to record all aircraft over thier towers with relation to speed, direction and type. He had become quite used to the B-17’s flying over as there was a training field in Walla Walla. However the noise of the aircraft did not seem right. He saw it making a very slow spiral decesnt apparently with engine problems. The aircraft was descending slow enough to strike three crewman after they had bailed out, killing all three. He does not know if any other got out. He says it took sometime for the aircraft to impact upon which it started a small forest fire. I imagine the fuselage and rest of the aircraft is somewhere in the area, probably in the creek drainage… Maybe some time I’ll get abck and have a more time to explore. I’ll try to scan the fire lookouts report and post it.

I’ll post some larger pics when i get a chance if there is interest.

Thought you guys might be interested in seeing some pics of a B-17 crash I recently hiked into. It appears we found only one wing and lacking time, gave up the search for the rest….it will save an adventure for a later date!

The last one is looking at the hill (left side) where the wing was found with my little brother looking worried that we were going to miss his uni graduation!!
I’ve got a couple more and could post larger ones if requested, just realized i shrunk them quite a bit.

IIRC I’ve seen pics. of this before with a larger section of wing as well, I think it was in Scandinavia ?

Martin

Would like to hear more….the history of crash!

Interesting photo’s and thanks for posting, when you find the time would like to hear the story behind the crash, what year etc !!!!!!!!!! Thanks !

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