Warbird Information Exchange

In my never-ending search to ID the Paducah B-17G, I found this image on the America Air Museum in Britain's site, credited to the Roger Freeman collection:


Not sure where this is, but it sure isn't Gulfport, MS with the desert landscape plus a batch of Vampires and an Avro York! The Fort's engines and turrets are missing, the life raft container is open, and it has a generally derelict look to it... so any guesses as to what's going on here?

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

This website;

http://www.accident-report.com/Serials/1942z8.htm

gives brief details of 42-102803 as being in "Iceland, 470827."

Scenery looks more in keeping with Iceland. Vampires and York (support aircraft?) could have been crossing the Atlantic on a tour.

Update.

www.raf.mod.uk website has this piece of information which might be relevant to the photograph;

12-14 Jul 1948 - Six Vampires of No. 54 Sqn make the first crossing of the Atlantic by jet aircraft. Their route takes them via Stornaway in the Outer Hebrides, Iceland and Greenland to Labrador in the Dominion of NewFoundland.

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