Image: B-17 bombing japanese positions on Gizo Island, Solomon Islands
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Description: A USAAF Boeing B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress (s/n 41-24457) leaving the target after a strike against Japanese shipping off Gizo Island, Solomon Islands, in October 1942. The B-17F 41-24457 (nickname "The Aztec's Curse") was assigned to the 31st Bombardment Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, and was written off after a crashlanding due to brake failure on 23 April 1943.
Title: B-17 bombing japanese positions on Gizo Island, Solomon Islands
Credit: Hyperwar United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Guadalcanal: The First Offensive John Miller, Jr.
Author: USAAF
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