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The forward gunner of a Flying Fortress during a US air raid over Germany - April 1943

Ground crew change the engine on an A-20A during the Carolina war games, 1941. Note the hastily applied Red Team markings over the national insignia

B-17E Hangar Queen and her crew at Grafton Underwood, likely August 1942. The aircraft would participate in the first American B-17 raid on the continent on 17 August 1942, bombing the rail yards at Rouen. On 18 August the 97th Bomb Group would trade their B-17Es for brand new B-17Fs and Hangar Queen would be relegated to rear area duties for the rest of the war.

El Rauncho, a B-17F of the 94th Bomb Group, likely at Grafton Underwood between missions. She would crash land at the base on 17 August 1943 after damage received on the Schweinfurt mission.