19th Bombardment Group B-17 parked in a camouflaged blister hangar probably at Batchelor Field in the Northern Territory, Australia, in early 1942. At the time, Japanese bombers were attacking the Darwin Area and the camouflage was necessary to prevent the bombers from being sighted by Japanese reconnaissance planes.
United States Army Air Corps
1942
USAF Historical Research Agency via B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War, Osprey Publishing; First Edition edition (April 20, 2003) ISBN: 1841764817