I should add that the pond visible in the B-24 picture is likely a bomb crater... or maybe a double bomb crater. They also used these wrecks bombing targets. There is what WAS a complete B-29 not that far from this wreck that was bellied into the spruce forest during WWII and subsequently bombed to smithereens. What a shame! I stopped to look at it while going through with a helicopter in 2008 and was amazed at how intact much of it is. I even found a bomb casing next to a crater, but it was too heavy to carry out or it would be in our air museum here now. There are thousands of usable parts scattered around the forest; even the engines are entirely intact and just a bit beat up and scattered. Gear legs with wheels and tires, instruments, heaters, bulkheads, gun turrets, prop blades, the entire tail section, you name it and it's there. Had they not blown it to smithereens it it would be very restorable and at the very least could provide a treasure trove of parts for other restoration projects. It's still a good source of parts actually. Sad. There was an L-4(J-3 Cub) observation plane next to the B-24 pictured that was slung into town and was for a time behind the hangar where I park my plane. The fuselage tag was there so it was restorable; not sure what happened to it.
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