Boeing B-17F-5-BO (S/N 41-24406) "All American III" of the 97th Bomb Group, 414th Bomb Squadron, in flight after a collision with an Me-109. The aircraft was able to land safely. (U.S. Air Force photo) " Uploader performed minor manual despeckling of original U.S. Air Force photo.
Related image indicates photographer was Airman aboard the B-17 “The Flying Flit Gun”, Lt. Charles 'Cliff' Cutforth.
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Smaller (504 × 219 pixels) version, inexplicably uploaded in gif format even though original was a jpg image.
WikiMedia software would not left me replace the gif with a jpg, so I'm uploading as separate image.
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Location: Skies over North Africa, between Tunis, Tunisia and Biskra, Algeria.
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Boeing B-17F-5-BO (S/N 41-24406) "All American III" of the 97th Bomb Group, 414th Bomb Squadron, in flight after a collision with an Me-109. The aircraft was able to land safely. (U.S. Air Force photo)