An Air Transport Command plane flies over the pyramids in Egypt.  Loaded with urgent war supplies and materials, this plane is one of a fleet flying shipments from the U.S. across the Atlantic and the continent of Africa to strategic battle zones.  1943. (Army)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  111-SC-179564
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1015

DC-3 over Egypt Pyramids

United States Army Air Force men in a Spitfire observing the performance of another one in flight. Left to right: they are Colonel Harold B. Willis, Boston, Massachusetts, Major Marvin L. McNickle, Doland, South Dakota, and Captain A. E. Vinson of Monticello, Mississippi. Possibly 1942.

USAF in British Spitfire

&quot;The first big raid by the 8th Air Force was on a Focke Wulf plant at Marienburg.  Coming back, the Germans were up in full force and we lost at least 80 ships - 800 men, many of them pals.&quot;  1943. Army Air Forces.  (OWI)
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NARA FILE #:  208-YE-7
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1087