“T’ings Is Tuff”, the Douglas-Tulsa-built Consolidated B-24H-15-DT Liberator, s/n 41-28931, 724th Bomb Squadron, 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force making a belly-landing at its base in Apulia Southern Italy after being damaged by Flak on a mission to Ploesti/Romania [Via]


A rough landing

A damaged Curtis P-40 fighter at Bellows Field. Of the Army's 123 first-line planes in Hawaii, 63 survived the attack; of the Navy's 148 serviceable combat aircraft, 36 remained. Only one small airfield on the north shore near Haleiwa was overlooked during the raid.