Disassembling a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress
Dateca.1946
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions6 15/16 × 8 5/8 in. (17.6 × 21.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Clark Speakman
Object numberPA1968.001.113
DescriptionA Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress is being cut up for scrap in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the center frame, a four-engine bomber B-17 being taken apart. All four engines have been removed. There is a crane on the right. It dropped a flat steel plate onto the front of the plane, crushing the nose onto the ground. There is a man inside, operating the crane. There are two planes parked in the background, on the far left.Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "B-17 bomber broken up for melting” and, "Plane Wreck and Crane."
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ca. 1946
August 6,1929