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English: U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress of the 602nd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, bomb Bingen, Germany, on 29 December 1944. The aircraft closest to the camera is B-17G-55-BO 42-102610 (K8-Y "Boomerang"). It was lost on the following day when it exploded in mid-air out of unknown reasons off Beachy Head, East Sussex, England (UK), on the way to the asseembly point for a mission against Bischofsheim, Germany.
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