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The nose art of a B-17G Flying Fortress nicknamed "I'll Get By" of the 390th Bomb Group. Printed caption on reverse: 'B-17G "I'll Get By", 8th Air Force. Photo by R.J. Zorn.'

FRE 8196

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Roger Freeman Collection
  • Object Number: FRE 8196
  • Description: The nose art of a B-17G Flying Fortress nicknamed "I'll Get By" of the 390th Bomb Group. Printed caption on reverse: 'B-17G "I'll Get By", 8th Air...
42-30042 Shack Rabbits aka Oh Nausea

UPL 83246

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83246
  • Description: 42-30042 Shack Rabbits aka Oh Nausea
42-31197 Shack Rabbit

UPL 83239

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83239
  • Description: 42-31197 Shack Rabbit
42-31043

UPL 83232

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83232
  • Description: 42-31043 'Elsie Mae'
Neil Oatney

UPL 83227

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83227
  • Description: S/Sgt Neil E. Oatney
Hawker Hurricane Mk I, V7608 XR-J, of No 71 (Eagle) Squadron RAF, lined up with other aircraft at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire

CH 2412

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: CH 2412
  • Description: Hawker Hurricane Mk I, V7608 XR-J, of No 71 (Eagle) Squadron RAF, lined up with other aircraft at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire Ground crewman...
Identification card for 1st Lt. Benjamin F. Douglas

UPL 83098

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83098
  • Description: Identification card for 1st Lt. Benjamin F. Douglas
Archie W Hill Jr, 82nd Fighter Squadron

HU 141135

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 141135
  • Description: Archie W Hill Jr, 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, at Duxford, 1943
Exterior of the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford

UPL 12893

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 12893
  • Description: The American Air Museum at IWM Duxford.
B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83735) painted in the livery of a B-17G of the 96th Bomb Group, on display at the American Air Museum, IWM Duxford.

2010.40.1

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: 2010.40.1
  • Description: B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83735) painted in the livery of a B-17G of the 96th Bomb Group, on display at the American Air Museum, IWM...
Full ID Card

UPL 83106

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83106
  • Description: 1st Lt. Benjamin F Douglas Full ID Card
Clarence Meekin

UPL 83218

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83218
  • Description: 2nd Lt Clarence E. Meekin
Clarence Meekin

UPL 83213

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83213
  • Description: 2nd Lt Clarence E. Meekin
De Havilland Mosquito PR XVI No NS508 parked at Mount Farm

COL 471

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: COL 471
  • Description: An RAF De Havilland Mosquito PR XVI No.NS508 parked at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella
82nd Fighter Squadron pilots relaxing outside the Squadron 'ready room': (left to right); Lieutenant Troy L Eggleston (killed in action, 26 November 1944), Captain Roland L Wolfe, Captain Winfield H Brown (later Squadron Operations Officer), Lieutenant Larry Nelson, late summer 1944.

HU 31937

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 31937
  • Description: 82nd Fighter Squadron pilots relaxing outside the Squadron 'ready room': (left to right); Lieutenant Troy L Eggleston (killed in action, 26 November...
British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.

HU 20930

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20930
  • Description: British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.
Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp

HU 20928

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20928
  • Description: Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp.
42-31844 The Swoose

UPL 83197

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83197
  • Description: A Group Lead Crew Back From Piombino, Italy Mission April 28, 1944. Standing, second from left, E. J. Campbell, Navigator; third from left, Fred...
Berton Almanzor

UPL 83190

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83190
  • Description: Sgt Berton F. Almanzor
Drummond brothers

UPL 83184

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83184
  • Description: LeRoy and brother Kennon Drummond.