Official USAAF photo. Original caption : “Three of the many U.S. 8th Air Force fighter pilots who distinguished themselves in the great air battle over Germany on 2 November 1944 when 8th Fighters destroyed 130 enemy planes in the air and 25 on the ground, are shown with Lt. General Carl A. Spaatz, Commanding General of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, after he presented Distinguished Service Crosses to them. Left to right: Lt. Col Robert P. Montgomery, Bethlehem, PA, who led eight North American P-51 Mustangs against 200 German fighters; Gen. Spaatz; Capt. Ray S. Wetmore, Kerman, Calif., whose six-plane section broke up a formation of thirty Germans; and capt. Donald S. Bryan, Paicines, Calif., who destroyed five enemy planes and damaged two others. England.”