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Pilots of the 2nd Scouting Force at a briefing

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Left to right: First Lieutenant Stanley G. Markusen, Public Relations Officer with the 78th Fighter Group, watches a mission take-off at Duxford, along with Major Charles E. Clapp Jr., journalist William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Major James Dufour, Passed for publication 28 October 1943.

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John Greenwood a navigator of the 351st Bomb Group enjoying a drink in Brussels after a mission over Dresden.

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P-38 Lightning pilots of the 55th Fighter Group huddle at Nuthampstead air base. Passed for publication 12 November 1943.

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Leo S Stoutsenberger, a Photographic Officer of the 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force with his camera at the waist gun position on a B-24 Liberator.

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