media-377524.jpg FRE 280 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 John G DuFour

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:- L to R:- 1/Lt. Stanley G. MARKUSEN, St Paul, Minnesota, Major Charles E. CLAPP Jr, Wesport, Conn., Mr. HURST, and Major James DuFOUR, 1310 Bay St., Alamoda, California. Lt Markusen is public relations officer of a Thunderbolt P-47 fighter station "somewhere in England". Major Clapp heads Eighth Fighter Command’s public relations division, and Major Dufour has participated in over 100 missions to continental Europe. They are watching the "take-off" of a mission – an escort for Flying Fortresses. U.S. Pool/SG/H 82.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection