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this dashboard with an oxygen pressure gauge and flow inficator comes from a B-17G crashed in our area. ... |
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03-27-2008, 02:53 AM
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Hello,
this dashboard with an oxygen pressure gauge and flow inficator comes from a B-17G crashed in our area. Can anyone identify where it comes from? Tail gunner comparment perhabs?
Thanks
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Roman Susil
Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | 
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03-29-2008, 03:27 AM
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Thanks!
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Roman Susil
Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | |
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03-29-2008, 07:51 AM
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From what I read in the B-17 erection and maintance manual this is a standard oxygen station. These stations where located through out the B-17. See picture below. Your set of gauges could come from any one of these locations.
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03-29-2008, 02:26 PM
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Country: | Many thanks Micdraw!
you´re right I guess, oxygen station. Unfortunately there´s no chance to identify its position in the plane and so the former end user of this unit...
Anyway, many thanks again!
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Roman Susil
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...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | |
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