Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses in flight with contrails
Three-quarter left front view from below of a formation of Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force, 390th Bomb Group (309BG), in flight somewhere over Europe; contrails (vapor trails) made by their escort fighters curve through the sky above the formation. Wing of photographer's B-17 visible in foreground. Circa December 1943.
- Date
- 1943–1944
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Sgt. Stanley M. Smith/United States Army Air Force
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,403 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Air Force).
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"Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses in flight with contrails" (1943–1944). Sgt. Stanley M. Smith/United States Army Air Force, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_B-17F_Flying_Fortresses_in_flight_with_contrails.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 103711.
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