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Pilots of 1st Fighter Group (12th and 15th AF) at their Italian base after return from a mission.
Loading of an external fuel tank on a P-38 Lightning.
Note the improvised hydraulically operated tank
remover, and especially the shape of the PSP
and its weathering.
872nd Engeneering outt laying PSP at a ghter base,
New Guinea, January 1944.
Extremely muddy conditions, unstable sand surfaces and soft
agricultural land were appropriate environments for using
PSP to build up aprons, taxiways and runways.