Ready to test out the new ships, called "steam chickens" by the natives, American pilots in Africa wait outside an airport hut made from a fighter plane packing crate.
- Date
- c. 1943
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,404 pixels
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