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And seaka ro www.thomas travel.com the B-29 nose onits side on a nearby road and a smashed mile away Unlike work onthis type “It's rine ably beout onaboat if] wasn’t doing this.” . THOMAS TRAVEL Coa 51, tened hangar, wooden plank: piled on top of airplane par field more than >-40. use Weeks Air Museum's old Dade, leaving the museum ina The scene resembled a bombed seum two years ago to helpre- ation history so he allowedTirado’'s group to pileof broken wood, plasticand glass displays on the side of the B23 Dragon lying in a grass hi 5 include s,German Stuka and Russian nuts, iain parts andtools. Lester Smith, a former Ma: rine »gan workingat the mu- ing a South Florida museum that children and adults could until August 1992 slammed into south Miami- brown, old-time fl thefirst jet tobe used in combat when it was flown at The Photo: New York Squadron of black display e reopened ESnee et ore: ive onl intcees eaeee ae a ional facili and where. 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