Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses in flight with contrails

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Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses in flight with contrails

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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.

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1943
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National Air and Space Museum
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