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Registration: 41-24311

Construction Number: 1106

Model Consolidated B-24D Liberator III

Operator: Rahmi M Koc Museum

Airport: Istanbul - Rahmi M Koc Museum, Turkey

Photographer: Chris England

Date Taken: 05/06/2011

Date Submitted: 07/07/2011

Named Hadley's Harem, this aircraft took part in the bombing raid on the petroleum refineries in Ploesti, Romania, on 1/8/43. Damaged by a Luftwaffe fighter, it ditched near Antalya off the southern coast of Turkey on its return flight to Cyprus. The airframe was salvaged in 1995 and partially restored for display in the museum as a permanent memorial to the raid.

Picture ID:1300764

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