Allied personnel inspect the wreckage of B-17F "Fire Ball Mail" 41-24551 after a Japanese bombing raid at Turnbull Field (No. 3 Strip)
At the center is the tail section with "124551" with the fabric control surfaces burned off from the fire atop Marston Matting / Pierced Steel Planking (PSP) with one of the engines visible at the center right. In the foreground is a coconut palm tree log used to form a revetment around the bomber. Credit: T.G. Jones via AWM P00647.020 Date: January 17, 1943
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