Boneyard Safari
Preserving Aviation HIstory

This German FW 190 crash landed on a 9th AF base of the 404th Fighter Group on the Continent during a raid on New Year's Day 1945. Mechanics of the field fixed up the plane and painted it bright red and decorated it with American markings. #fw190 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

How the Me-262 started out as a tail dragger. #me262 #luftwaffe #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Some Avengers got a second life after WWII. #tbm #tbf #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Here is USS Saratoga CV-3 in Puget Sound in May of 1942. #usssaratoga #cv3 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Here is USS Saratoga CV-3 late WWII with an expanded forward flight deck, and lowered stack. Remarkably she survived numerous attacks and made it to the end of the war. #usssaratoga #cv3 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Check out this B-25 that returned from a mission in Italy in 1945, that vertical stab got shredded! #b25 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Do you know two YP-80’s flew reconnaissance sorties in Italy in February and March 1945 but never engaged German aircraft? #p80 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

At the end of WWII with allied air superiority, the Germans had to be creative in hiding their aircraft, here is an Me-109 tucked into the edge of a forest. #me109 #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Here is a Flak tower during construction in 1942, some of them still exist today. 88mm #flaktower #wwii #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

A little bit about the tail gunners armor on the B-17 at the 390th Memorial Museum Foundation #b17 #390thmemorialmuseum #wwii #boneyardsafari