A ground crew man loads ammunition into a P-38 Lightning. Image stamped on reverse: 'Keystone Press.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 14 Oct 1943.' [stamp], '287425.' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: '[illegible] ATTACK NORTHERN FRANCE. [illegibile] Flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new aerial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well trained pilots- some of the already experienced in the other theatres of war- and ground crews swear by their ships. From briefing room to flying line from runways to skyways and contact with the enemy, each mission represents expert planning by operations and intellegence and the brains and sweat of every man who prepars and order or tightens a screw on a prop. Photo shows: Loading ammunition before a mission.'