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10-24-2017, 06:55 PM
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Lyndon Johnson....
Back in late July this year, I was travelling into far Western Queensland with my 4WD mates and we stopped off in a town called Winton.
In the main street, is a really nice old Art Deco hotel and picture theatre. In the window of the hotel was this sign board and I was quite surprised to see Lyndon Johnson has his name up there. A day earlier we had been travelling through a cattle station and saw a sign pointing towards where a B17 had crashed in 1942. We did not go down that track because light was fading and we needed to get to our next camp. I guess the said B17 is the one Johnson was on??? Not sure though. I looked up Johnson's history on Wikipedia but can't see any reference to him being in a plane crash in Queensland.
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10-24-2017, 10:17 PM
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More here on the Military Wiki website... http://military.wikia.com/wiki/The_Swoose_(B-17D)
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10-24-2017, 10:37 PM
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If I remember correctly, LBJ was on a B-26 crew for a while.
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10-25-2017, 06:13 AM
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10-25-2017, 06:22 AM
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For some reason, it kept putting the last ) in the wrong place.
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10-26-2017, 06:48 AM
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The Swoose may have made an emergency landing, but it certainly didn't crash there...as the aircraft is in a US museum being slowly restored.....very historic aircraft.
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10-26-2017, 08:49 AM
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 Should have dawned on me as Springsure is a fair distance from Winton.This is the Dakota crash which confused me.http://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/qld63.htm
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