Unknown wrecksite found.

More photo’s and information. Looks like it might be a B24 Liberator..

I am quite sure now that it is the B24j RR-H+ serialnumber 44-40109 after what you have send to me. There where some eye- witness who had seen comming down a big 4 engine airplane.

If my knowledge is up to it, I would say that it is not necessarily a specific B-24 part if even fitted to a B-24 and in fact may not even be American.
The assembly number you give does not tie into my understanding of B-24 part numbers.
Normally a B-24 specific part would, I believe, precede with the number 32.
ie; 32-XXXX-XX.
Of course common fitted parts would be labelled otherwise, but this part looks to be an aeroplane specific part.
Also, as I understand it, an American rivetted on assembly number such as this, would normally involve it being a more fuller data plate with the assembly’s manufacturers detail on it and would not even be rivetted to what looks like an exterior skin.
Where American parts don’t have a data plate as such, then generally what you find is the assembly number stamped straight onto or painted onto the parts surface directly.
I am aware that a B-17 specific assembly is preceded by the number 15.
ie; 15-XXXX-XX.
I don’t know why these numbers are the way they are, but they just are.

I hope this helps if even to just eliminate it.

Bomberboy

UPDATE

More photo’s and information. Looks like it might be a B24 Liberator..

Here some more foto’s of the part.
I am quite sure now that it is the B24j RR-H+ serialnumber 44-40109 after what you have send to me. There where some eye- witness who had seen comming down a big 4 engine airplane.

Looks American to me Peter

Thanks very much NC900. That might be one possiblity. I will let him know.

G.L.M. = Glenn L. Martin… but is that the G.L.M. we are looking for ?
and just a guess, could it be part of a turret…or any component made by Glenn L. Martin for Consolidated ? from a B-24J for exemple.

Could it be from this Liberator ?

14th Feb 1945 – B-24J – #44-40109 – RR-H+ – Haringvliet/Brielle – 16:30
389th BG – Circle ‘C’ – 566th BS – 1st Lt. J. Weiss – MACR #12340
1 KIA – 8 POW
Missing aircrew report from 44-40109:
http://www.footnote.com/image/28682263/numbers%7c12340%7cReport%7cNumber%7creports/#28682263
or try this page :
http://www.footnote.com/browse.php#All|28682236
nose art of 44-40109:
http://www.b24bestweb.com/unstablemabel.htm

Oliver

Peter,

The Haringvliet is in the Netherlands but a F100 in 1945
would be a bit futuristic.

Interesting though.

Cees

Did any part of an F-100 have raised rivets? Or is this the backside of the part shown in the photo? Drop tank perhaps? It does seem like it could have come from a float, or maybe a rivited construction aluminum boat?

cheers

greg v.

From Craig Fuller’s index, http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/partaircraft.htm, 192- was the prefix used on North American F-100 parts, it makes sense as NAA had a habit of putting ASSM in front of their part numbers.

I have asked him to take some pictures of the backside in case theres paint or other to go on..

Not sure about that, It looks aircraft related to me?

Oops, sorry, I didn’t mean that it was a boat part, yes it sure looks like an aeropart. But, it could have had marine bits in it such as a float plane for example? I’m brainstorming because we have little to go on.

edit………it could also stand for Grenade Launcher Module?

Not sure about that, It looks aircraft related to me?

Can anyone identify not only the part but the aircraft typefrom the part number on the plate? This is all I have to go on so far…

The plane crashed in 1945 in a river named Haringvliet near to us. This is the number showing up on the plate. G.L.M. ASSEM 192–1628 A10623.

Maybe not much use but here goes: –
GLM Assembly. Isn’t GLM a marine engine maker?