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42-43272

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Hawkeye
  • Unit: 34th Bomb Squadron 17th Bomb Group

42-43286

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group

42-4478

  • Aircraft Type: P-39 Airacobra
  • Unit: 332nd Fighter Group 301st Fighter Squadron
A P-39 Airacobra (serial number 42-4561) of the 15th Air Force. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1943.' [stamp] and '23193.' [Censor no.]

42-4561

  • Aircraft Type: P-39 Airacobra
  • Unit: Fifteenth Air Force

42-46040

  • Aircraft Type: P-40 Warhawk
  • Unit: 57th Fighter Group 64th Fighter Squadron

42-46497

  • Aircraft Type: CG-4A Haig
  • Unit: 440th Troop Carrier Group

42-47723

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Paydola, Johnny Walker
The top of the fuselage of a 305th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-49319) piloted by Lieutenant Ashcraft in February 1943 at Chelveston airbase. Nearest the camera is the radio-room machine-gun, manned by the radio operator, and in the background (towards the aircraft's nose) is the twin-machine-gun top-turret manned by the engineer. Passed for publication 17 Feb 1943. Handwritten caption on reverse: '249319. 2/43. 305BG. Ashcraft crew.' Printed caption on reverse: 'Fortress Crew. Associ

42-49319

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron

42-50277

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Dolly
  • Unit: 450th Bomb Group 720th Bomb Squadron

42-50278

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 734th Bomb Squadron

42-50279

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 579th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group