Boeing B-17G airplane tail number 238157

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2020-04-24

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Rear starboard side view of a damaged Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress airplane, tail number 238157, on March 24, 1944. Markings on nose reads: "Four Freedoms." Captions on front of the image reads: "510 (44) W.P.U 3-24-44. Ash Ford B-17G, 42-38157. Battle Damage. O.F.S.A.D." Captions on the back of the image reads: "Change of no. 1 and no. 2 engines and all associate parts necessary. Left tire and wheel must be changed. Holes in Wings and Fuselage skin to be patched. Entrance door to be replaced. Wing and tail surfaces available at Sandwich." Image displayed (72 dpi JPEG), Master image (600 dpi TIFF).

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World War, 1939-1945, United States Army Air Forces, Aircraft Accidents Military, USAAF Station 595, Honington, England, World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American., Boeing airplanes, Boeing bombers, B-17 bomber., United States. Air Force. Air Force, 8th, United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Division, 3rd, United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 452nd

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Permission to publish material from this collection in any form, current or future, must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.

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