FRE 2445
IMAGEA P-38 Lightning of the 55th Fighter Group with a Halifax, after a forced landing. Passed for publication 23 Feb 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '21/2/44. 55FG?' Printed caption on reverse: 'Bedfellows. Associated Press Photo Shows:- Indicative of the co-operation now existing between fighters and bombers and between the RAF and USAAF is this picture of a belly-landed P-38 Lightning that put down on a Liberator base when it got into trouble returning from a raid and a Halifax bomber (background) which also made an emergency landing after the last raid on Berlin. IRV 265231. 23-2-44-Y.' On reverse: Associated Press, US Army Press Censor ETO and US Army General Section Press & Censorship Bureau [Stamps].
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Units
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter