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o give credit where it is due in author Mark Carlson’s otherwise excellent article “The Catch of Catch-22” (Autumn 2022): Paul Mantz, not Frank Tallman, rescued B-25H, 43-4643 (along with 474 other surplus aircraft) from Stillwater, Oklahoma, in the spring of 1946. It was also Mantz who converted it into the specialized camera ship he nicknamed “The Smasher,” and it was Mantz and his team who developed and constructed the “Cinerama” nose.
