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"Boeing B-17F

Boeing B-17F-5-BO (S/N 41-24406) "All American III" of the 97th Bomb Group, 414th Bomb Squadron, in flight after a collision with an Me-109. The aircraft was able to land safely. (U.S. Air Force photo) "
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U.S. government web page incorporating image:
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000571925
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160808011525/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000571925
Author Related image indicates photographer was Airman aboard the B-17 “The Flying Flit Gun”, Lt. Charles 'Cliff' Cutforth.
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Smaller (504 × 219 pixels) version, inexplicably uploaded in gif format even though original was a jpg image.
WikiMedia software would not left me replace the gif with a jpg, so I'm uploading as separate image.

B-17-battle-casualty1.gif

Location: Skies over North Africa, between Tunis, Tunisia and Biskra, Algeria.

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