[Phlyer]

Now I tend to agree that it IS inverted, because the forward side of the wing root is nearly flush with the fuselage,

I must respectfully disagree. Relative to the fuselage the leading edge of the wing is noticeably higher than the trailing edge, which has to indicate that the wing is right side up. Plus, as I said before, the flap on the trailing edge is down (with an obvious fairing for it to fair into when up).

My problem is that there isn't an obvious single-engine, WWII era plane that has a wing that high on the fuselage - float plane, attack plane, or fighter. The OS2U was mid-wing with very low canopy rails (which allows for the canopy to be missing from the wrecked plane). It's still the closest I can come up with.

[rlmorel]

I think I was doing a poor job of conveying what I was thinking, I just did a line drawing and my contention is that configuration #1 is probably more common than configuration#2. That is why I think it is indeed upside down.

I thought about the configuration of the flaps as well when I first saw the picture, and I just thought that is how they fell over time as decay occurred because the plane was inverted and gravity took them down.