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Inside the Tail of a Douglas A-20-A Light Bomber
Inside the Tail of a Douglas A-20-A Light Bomber
Inside the Tail of a Douglas A-20-A Light Bomber

Inside the Tail of a Douglas A-20-A Light Bomber

DateApril 1943
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions6 1/16 × 9 in. (15.3 × 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque National Bank
Object numberPA1980.061.428
DescriptionPrivate Robert K. Colgate is tightening elevator control cables in the tail of a Douglas A-20-A light bomber, a high speed attack bomber. He is sitting inside the small circular fame of the plane's tail. Private Colgate is dressed in work clothes. There are two work lights hanging in the foreground just inside the frame.
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