UPL 29853
IMAGETunis, Tunisia-A German fighter plane whose pilot had been killed, crashed into this Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" while it was bombing Nazi supply lines in North Africa. The fuselage was cut half into, and one elevator was torn away.
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Units
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Headquarters
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: All American
- Unit: 301st Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 97th Bomb Group 353rd Bomb Squadron 414th Bomb Squadron