When Rudy Froeschle of Hazen, North Dakota, mustered out of the service after World War II, he picked up some pamphlets. Rudy found out you could buy a surplus B-17 bomber for 350 dollars. Froeschle had piloted B-17s during the war and thought it would be great to get one. Rudy couldn’t buy one himself, but when he got back to his hometown of Hazen, he talked the school board into buying one for “educational purposes” and offered to fly it in for them. The school ordered a bomber.