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media-27938.jpeg UPL 27938 Training ship based at Rapid City, SD. Later used in filming of The Best Years of Our Lives at Ontario, CA with studio-applied nose art "Round ? Trip". Dan Johnson Collection

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Object Number - UPL 27938 - Training ship based at Rapid City, SD. Later used in filming of The Best Years of Our Lives at Ontario, CA with studio-applied nose art "Round ?...

Delivered Denver 25/6/43; Assigned 395BG to Ephrata with Orville Castle, force landed Moses Lake 3/8/43; 497BG Pratt 11/8/43; with Hayden Hughes force landed Harvard Fd, NE 11/10/43; 225 ASC Rapid City 29/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 19/6/45. Filmed at Ontario for movie The Best Years of Our Lives with nose art "Round ? Trip" added by studio.

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Still from motion picture 'The Best Years Of Our Lives'

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Wartime photo

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Movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Object number: UPL 27938 - Training ship based at Rapid City, SD. Later used...