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Looking down from the radio room thru the bomb bay of a Boeing B-17

Looking down from the radio room thru the bomb bay of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, two ordnance men are seen preparing two 500 lb H.E. bombs on bomb cart before they are lifted into position and fixed into bomb racks for shipment to enemy territory. The man on the right is adjusting arming wires while the man on the left is threading the fin into position on the bomb.