Caterpillar D7 clearing rubble on a captured German airstrip

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Americans of an Engineer Aviation Battalion clears rubble and the debris of the former German occupants. Chief among these is what appears to be a mockup of an early model Messerschmitt Bf 109 B-1. This may have originally built for ground training of some kind, but was most likely on this particular airfield as a decoy to attract the attention of Allied airpower.