War correspondent William Randolph Hearst Jr talks to Lieutenant Colonel James J Stone of the 78th Fighter Group in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt during a visit to Duxford. Passed for publication 28 October 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'Thunderbolts - the "Guardian Angels" of Flying Fortresses. Here are pictures of Thunderbolts P-47s, the famous American fighter planes, which escort Flying Fortresses on their daylight missions over Occupied Europe. Photo shows:- William Randolph HEARST, Jr., talks with Lt. Col. James J. STONE, Jr., Westfield, N.J., as the Colonel prepares to lead his Thunderbolt P-47 group on another bomber-escort mission into Germany. Mr Hearst visited this fighter station "somewhere in England", and attended the briefing before the mission. Here he wished the three-times destroyed of German fighter planes, "Good Luck" and "Good Hunting". U.S. Pool/SG/H. Keystone 57 & 58.'