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B-17E "Frank Buck" 41-2659 force landed on the beach at Hood Point. Overhead is a circling B-25 Mitchell from the 3rd Bomb Group.
Original caption: "American B-17 bomber "Frank Buck" stranded on a beach awaiting salvage after being forced to land because of equipment problems"
Credit: George Strock / LIFE Date: September 1942
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