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Description USAAF Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress bombers of the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group over the Southwest Pacific in 1942. The B-17F-20-BO (s/n 41-24531) visible on the right was shot down by a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter over Tonolei harbour, Buna Island, Solomon Islands, on 18 November 1942. During the attack the pilot Maj. Allen J. Seward, and the copilot Lt. Jack Lee were killed. One engine caught on fire, but Col. LaVerne Saunders made a water landing about 50 km from Tonolei harbour near a very small island. An Australian coastwatcher reached the survivors about three hours later. The crew was taken to Vella Lavella Island an picked up by a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat and returned to Guadalcanal.
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