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| Keywords: B-17Fs 26BS 11BG 1942.jpg 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 LOC-image fsa 8e00281 1942 USAAF frame removed PD-USGov B-17F Solomon Islands Campaign 11th Bombardment Group United States Army Air Forces | ||||
