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Old 30th Nov 2022, 18:32
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B17 41-9042 'Berlin Sleeper' previously with 97th BG Polebrook but transferred to 92nd BG Bovingdon September 1942. Later said to be with the 303rd BG at Molesworth and renamed 'Ridge Runner'. This photograph is one of a sequence of four very similar and unattributed. In one of the images the camouflage over the Hangar Doors can be glimpsed and is very similar to that of No 1 Hangar at Bovingdon. The 'Life Magazine' photographer Margaret Bourke-White was active with the 97th BG at Polebrook in the autumn of 1942 but none of her images show 41-9042 or any American Red Cross Mobile Canteens in Hangars. There is already a photograph of the 'Berlin Sleeper' being towed down the runway at Bovingdon posted on this thread (#197) and it seems reasonable to attribute the location of the above image to Bovingdon. The American Red Cross Clubmobile here above consists of an adapted E83W FORDSON together with a trailer - the registration in this case JWL619.











Photo Credit Panzernet. Possibly Bovingdon.....



A bit of light-hearted drift here - Snetterton not Bovingdon.

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