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The Bendix Eclipse G-6 was used on Consolidated B-24 Liberators as well...
“The Type G-6 Eclipse starter used on the B-24 is a combination electric and hand inertia starter, and in addition provides continuous cranking of the engine after the flywheel energy has been applied. This is accomplished by means of a heavy duty accelerating motor and a solenoid engaging device."
http://www.bomberlegends.com/pdf/BL_Mag_v1-4-TechTalk.pdfThe following link contains the Aviation Engine Starter
...ORPS TYPE G-6 MFR's. DWG. NO. 104344-915-4 [remainder obscured]
[unknown field, apparently blank]
SPEC. NO. 32304 ACCEPTANCE [two stamped marks]
ECLIPSE AVIATION
DIVISION OF BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION
BENDIX, N.J., MADE IN U.S.A.
Third ad' up from the bottom....
Series 43 Aircraft Starter. Eclipse Aircraft Starter Type G-6A
Spec 95-32304Ahttp://www.forgottenfield.com/amg/powerplant/Which begs the question, is it a B-17 four engined plane or a B-24 four engined plane?
Here's why I say that...
3 December 2005 - After more than 60 years divers find the wreckage of a bomber in an Italian lake, reports Richard Owen.
ANNE STORM was only a year old when the birthday letter from her father arrived. Written on the eve of a mission in wartime Italy, it was the last that she would ever hear from her father, Flying Officer Bob Millar, Observer, RAAF. In the years to come she read it over and over, fuelling a lifelong quest to trace the bomber in which he and seven comrades died. This week, after more than 60 years, that quest seems close to fulfilment with the discovery of an aircraft deep in an Italian lake.
Mrs Storm’s father went missing while flying in a Liberator bomber over Nazi-occupied northern Italy on 12 October 1944, to drop supplies to partisans. Six aircraft crashed in poor weather but the wreckages of five were located after the war.
Inspired to find the bomber by the tender lines written by her father, four years ago Mrs Storm visited the mountain villages where the partisans had been operating but could not find any leads.
She went to Neirone and Favale di Malvaro, villages in the mountains near Genoa, where the partisans had operated. “I spoke to the old men in the village squares, but they knew nothing about the fate of the Liberator, and in any case my Italian was not fluent enough,” she said.
She turned to Harry Shindler, the representative in Italy of the Star Association, an organisation for Second World War veterans who fought in the Italian campaigns. He studied the flight plan and concluded that the bomber must have disappeared in a lake. He pinpointed Lake Bolsena on the border between Lazio and Umbria and contracted a group of amateur divers to search it, resulting this week in the discovery of a “very large plane” 100 metres down.
http://www.theoddbods.org/2006_04/oddsnends12.htmhttp://www.iphpbb.com/foren-archiv/3/139200/138320/b24-near-lake-bolsena-italy-81805422-79380-1849.htmlI will try to source the parts you have posted up to see which type of four engined plane they belonged to.
Note: There's more than one aircraft at the bottom of that lake plus, one Chinook helicopter