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Description A USAAF Boeing B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress (s/n 41-24457) leaving the target after a strike against Japanese shipping off Gizo Island, Solomon Islands, in October 1942. The B-17F 41-24457 (nickname "The Aztec's Curse") was assigned to the 31st Bombardment Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, and was written off after a crashlanding due to brake failure on 23 April 1943.
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Source Hyperwar United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Guadalcanal: The First Offensive John Miller, Jr.
Author USAAF
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current15:21, 11 October 2009Thumbnail for version as of 15:21, 11 October 2009607 × 480 (85 KB)Cobatformore standard size photo
04:29, 9 May 2006Thumbnail for version as of 04:29, 9 May 2006640 × 354 (54 KB)PDHStrategic air actions during October were carried out against Japanese positions on Gizo Island (above), where one of a flight of B-17's is seen leaving the target after the bombing, and against enemy shipping Image appears in [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyp

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