B-17F "Old Baldy" 41-24455 elevators being removed for repair at 7 Mile Drome near Port Moresby
AWM Caption: "New Guinea. Despite both elevators being badly damaged by ack ack fire and shrapnel having torn the tyres of both landing wheels to the canvas, a Flying Fortress was flown 400 miles to its base in New Guinea, and landed safely. The pilot was 1st Lieut. James C. Dioffenderfer [sic Dieffenderfer] of Logan, Virginia. The fortress was damaged in attacking a convoy. This picture shows the damaged elevators." AWM Date: March 22, 1943 likely this photograph was taken on March 2, 1943 during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea when the damage was sustained or days afterwards while being repaired. Credit: Norman Brown via AWM 014463 Date: March 1943
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