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Date
1943
Creation Date
2008-06-13
Description
Black & White photograph montage of various shots of the United States Army Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group, in North Africa en route to and in Gambut, Libya, circa 1943. There is a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, Serial No. 41-23729, flying over North Africa to Gambut, Libya, in the top left image. Service personnel are standing, with their gear, at the rear of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Serial No. 41-23874, in the top right image. The middle image shows another group of service personnel standing or resting with their gear. Seven service personnel are examining the remains of a German Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane (foreground), and there is a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber in the background in the bottom left image. Four service personnel are talking to each other (foreground), and three Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers are shown in the background in the bottom right image.
Digital Collection
Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection, 1942-1945
Collection Number
SpC MS 0006
Finding Aid
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/3/
Object Type
Photograph
Image Format
Still Image
Location
Africa--Libya
Publisher Digital
Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections
Rights
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Keywords
World War (1939-1945)--Aerial operations, American--Photographs, United States--Army Air Forces--History--Photographs, Bombers--United States--Photographs, B-24 Bomber--Photographs, World War (1939-1945)--Aerial operations, German--Photographs, Messerschmitt 109 (Fighter planes)--Photographs, World War (1939-1945)--Africa, North--Photographs, Africa, North--History--Photographs, World War (1939-1945)--Libya--Photographs, Soldiers--United States--Photographs
Notes
Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 6, Watkins, Arnold Clayton, Envelope 7, 06. Contributed by Joan F. Watkins.