B-24D "Bundles For Japan" 41-23969 parked at Midway Airfield
Parked on the crushed coral runway is B-24D "Flying Mongoose"
41-????? and beyond a parked jeep and airfield installations. At the center are U.S. air crews in flight gear talking with an U.S. soldier wearing a helmet and a shouldered rifle. At the left is a U.S. Navy sailor. Above is the right wing with the no. 3 and no. 4 engines with the cowl flaps opened for both engines.
Wartime caption: "The poured it on Jap held Wake Island - At an unidentified U.S. advance base in the Pacific, crew members of an Army Air Force Bomber stand under the wing of their ship before taking off for a Christmas eve bombing attack on Wake Island, scene of the gallant Marine stand a year ago. In this raid, 76,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on the Jap-held island. (Note to editors: do not mention type of bomber shown) #14 DJH LON SA MX SJ CAN LV 8- MGS 1/4/43 [date of release, photograph likely taken December 22, 1942 before the Wake Island raid]."
Credit: USAAF, 7th AF via ACME Date: December 22, 1942
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