Better web-copy of the above photo (with no watermark) can be found here: https://ww2db.com/images/574132dfcbbb2.jpg
It's a public domain. The full description to this image is: United States Coast Guard PBY-5A Catalina with Patrol-Bombing Squadron 6 on the ramp at Bluie West One air strip, Narsarssuak, Greenland (now Narsarsuaq), 1943.
This a/c is in the ASW-scheme. Buildings in the back are the famous Quonset huts.
More about VPB-6 - here, starts at page 7 with some more photos of the squadron "Catalinas".
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The ebay description is wrong: this is not a 5A (amphibian), but a flying boat (5)-model.
P.S. Below are 2 photos of a PBY-5 in the same configuration at Port Lyautey. Note the charges on rails under the wings. They are to be dropped backwards! One can see them on the photo in colour too.
The photos are snapshots from this video.
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Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina all the same site of Patrol Squadron (VP) 6, a Coast Guard squadron, on Marston matting at Narsarssuak, Greenland, during World War II.