SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station.
“Everybody knew where the bomber was,” Terry Scott, the executive director of the B-17 Alliance Foundation said. “This was becoming a rare artifact sitting in our front yard.”
Eventually, Scott and her husband decided to move the aircraft to the Salem Municipal Airport. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, a group of volunteers travels down to the Salem tarmac to rebuild the aircraft…