Matt Wiser wrote in news:c381e208-3e25-428f-accd-f
There was another name that pilots called the aircraft: "Son of a
Bitch, 2nd Class." The -1 version was the worst, but the -3 onward
handled very well.
There appears to be evidence that this is the 1948 crash not one of the
two 1945 missing aircraft.
the date 1946 has been reported to have been found stamped on a piece of
wreckage and then this newspaper article
http://media.oregonlive.com/news_imp.../1948Crash.pdf
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index...nic_remembers_
62-y.html
http://www.kval.com/news/89334052.html