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The B25 D and two other flyable aircraft comprise the heart of the museum's collection. The museum's B25 D model, used in combat over Corsica and still pockmarked by German fire, is the only one of its kind still in existence, said Brian Higgins, member of the museum's board of directors. And its B17 is one of just five flyable ones remaining in the world, he said.
Everything else in the 40,000-square-foot museum -- memorabilia dating back as far as World War I, aviation reference materials, aircraft currently under restoration and a number of artifacts from the Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio, and the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum in Quantico, Va. -- was destroyed.
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The B25 D and two other flyable aircraft comprise the heart of the museum's collection. The museum's B25 D model, used in combat over Corsica and still pockmarked by German fire, is the only one of its kind still in existence, said Brian Higgins, member of the museum's board of directors. And its B17 is one of just five flyable ones remaining in the world, he said.
Everything else in the 40,000-square-foot museum -- memorabilia dating back as far as World War I, aviation reference materials, aircraft currently under restoration and a number of artifacts from the Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio, and the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum in Quantico, Va. -- was destroyed.
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