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The cockpit of a P-38 Lightning of the 20th Fighter Group, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, damaged by a 20mm cannon shell, 13 June 1944. Printed caption on reverse: 'A 20 m.m. cannon shell hit the windscreen of Lt.Col. Wilson's P-38J over France on 13th June 1944. The 55th F. Sqdn's commander escaped with slight face wounds - first man in the squadron to be wounded in action.'
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The cockpit of a P-38 Lightning of the 20th Fighter Group, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, damaged by a 20mm cannon shell, 13 June 1944. Printed caption on reverse: 'A 20 m.m. cannon shell hit the windscreen of Lt.Col. Wilson's P-38J over France on 13th June 1944. The 55th F. Sqdn's commander escaped with slight face wounds - first man in the squadron to be wounded in action.'

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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection