Newspaper repot on temporary field near Torquay allowed force-landed B-17 to take off

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Similar field (B-17 recovery & flight) also near to Bere Regis in Dorset: I did have photos a while ago, but sadly lost in the Great Memory Stick FUBAR of 2012....

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Another more famous recovery of a B-17 being flown out of a field was at the end of March 1945.
For reasons unknown to me, a 398th Bomb Group B-17, Ser No. 43-39137, landed in a field very close to its Nuthampstead base near Royston.
The aircraft was stripped of much weight, was fitted with a number of rocket packs and then successfully flown off a temporary PSP runway for the very short flight back to the airfield.
The rocket packs were mounted in fabricated rails and I believe fitted to the two underwing external bomb pylon mount positions, that were provided right through the B-17's production life.