OFFICIAL CAPTION: A photographer in the cockpit of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress en route to target framed this photograph of the planes No. 3 and No. 4 engines. This Flying Fortress is based at Hickam Field, Hawaii. 30 January 1942. [End caption] Assigned to the 11th Bomb Group at Hickam Field, this aircraft is one among a half-dozen Fortresses pulling patrol duty off Hawaii shortly after the 7 December attack. Contrary to the official caption, this photograph was taken from the nose of the Fortress,_[JASpringer]
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