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11_38_02.jpg (45481 bytes) Kaiserlautern
11_38_03.jpg (52876 bytes) Frankfurt
12_06_01.jpg (14988 bytes) The morning line-up to take-off on a mission.
12_09_01.jpg (23761 bytes) Merseburg, 30 November 1944,  flown at 30,000 feet and took 8 hours to complete.
12_09_02.jpg (40355 bytes) Unna,  23 March 1945,  flown at 23,000 feet and took 6 1/2  hours to complete.
12_10_01.jpg (28188 bytes) Fulda,  19 March 1945,  flown at 26,000 feet and took 8 hours and 15 minutes to complete.
12_10_02.jpg (26499 bytes) Plauen,  21 March 1945, flown at 26,000 feet and took 7 hours and 30 minutes to complete.
12_11_01.jpg (28968 bytes) Berlin,  18 March 1945,  flown at 26,000 feet and took 7 hours and 30 minutes to complete.
12_12_01.jpg (29060 bytes) Flak Filled Skies---As U. S. Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses invade Germany to attack oil targets at Merseburg, November 30th, hundreds of German anti-aircraft guns fill the skies with flak.  Contrails streaming behind, a Fortress formation is seen surrounded by smudgy bursts, just below the horizon line.  The white cloud is all that remains of a Fortress which was hit by flak, enroute to the target.
12_53_01.jpg (22498 bytes) Formation of B-17's as far as the eye can see.
12_54_05.jpg (30005 bytes) More Flak Filled Skies
2_48_3.jpg (31033 bytes) Bomb damage at Ludwigshaven.
2_48_2.jpg (27603 bytes) Bomb damage at Ludwigshaven.
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2_49_4.jpg (45150 bytes) Noball mission.
2_53_1.jpg (29301 bytes) Bomb damage at Essen.
2_52_2.jpg (31201 bytes) Bomb damage in the Ruhr Valley.
3_26_1.jpg (55311 bytes) A picture of Ulm, Germany. It shows the river DONAU (Danube) and the cathedral ULMER MÜNSTER approaching from the southwest.   Ulm was the home of Erwin von Rommel (The Desert Fox).   Picture identification courtesy of Holger Baudach of Ulm, Germany.
Aerial view of Berlin
Aerial view of Berlin
Le Bourget mission on 14 Jul 1943