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I've seen fabric patches on standard Boston-bombers from the 47-th BG. but from later days:

That's what I was referring to.

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"Would you kindly remove your water canteen from my aileron mass balance as I want to begin my pre-flight! And would someone please find my nose cowls so I can get out of here?!"

 

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An A-20 Havoc variant. High-speed reconnaissance aircraft YF-3 39-748 at Ladd Field, 22 August 1942 Ladd field is outside of Fairbanks Alaska at Fort Wainwright

 

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417th Bomb Group A-20 Havocs are taxiing into position for a mission. The location is unclear but has to be the Philippines or New Guinea..

 

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RAF Spitfire Photo Reconnaissance aircraft (PR. XI) in Luftwaffe insignia following capture

 

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A-20G 43-9479 named "Georgia Bull Dog II" from 417th BG. Note the curtain on the hatch behind the pilot.

 

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Gaulkin Gol, 1939

 

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[cammerjeff]

Marine guards posted around a damaged TBD Devastator torpedo bomber at Ewa Field (courtesy of John Voss).​

According to John Bennett of the Coast Defense Study Group, "The aircraft was plane #8 of Squadron VT-6 (Torpedo 6) assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise,​

and it was involved in a mid-air collision with another Torpedo 6 TBD off the coast of southwest Oahu prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.​

The landed at Camp Malakole near Barbers Point & was being guarded by members of the federalized 251st Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment of the California National Guard.​

The downed plane was towed to Ewa Field from Camp Malakole."

Note the damaged Canopy & vertical Stab​

Source Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

 

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Gaulkin Gol, 1939
Japanese troops show off captured Soviet gear

 

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French DB-7 (A-20 Havoc) with early style twin fins. Around 1940.
This is at Floyd bennet Field, New York City.

 

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PLA tankers, Korea
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[SaparotRob]

French DB-7 (A-20 Havoc) with early style twin fins. Around 1940.
This is at Floyd bennet Field, New York City.

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Thanks for the memories. I was a sea explorer as a teen. My Sea Explorer Ship, 501, Boy Scouts of America, was sponsored by Naval Aircraft Station New York (aka Floyd Bennett Field).
That really cheered me up.