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B-17F "Old Baldy" 41-24455 tire repair at 7 Mile Drome
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 Diffenderfer] of Logan, Virginia. The fortress was damaged in attacking a convoy. This picture shows the torn tyres." 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 014464 Date: March 1943
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