<i>British Equipment at An American Airfield- Anglo-american Co-operation in Wartime Britain, 1943</i><br>
The crash tender team at an American airfield somewhere in Britain run with their hoses to a B17 Flying Fortress during a drill.  The crash tenders are British-made and are posted with ambulances around the airfield when aircraft are due to land in order to provide a quick response to any emergency which may occur.  The aircraft features the letters UX, indicating that it is an aircraft of 407 Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Group.
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between 1939 and 1945 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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<td>This photograph <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205200213">D 15124</a> comes from the collections of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/">Imperial War Museums</a>.
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