Higgins Boat drop

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Higgins Boat drop

SB-17 44-85746 was capable of dropping a Higgins lifeboat.   Remnants of the boat and rigging are still strewn about the upper debris field.

 

(Picture and text by Carl Scargall)web_4thdrop.jpg (66031 bytes)

 

 

Photos below are of an airdrop sequence exhibit I photographed at McChord AFB museum 2001:

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