P-40's from the 57th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force taking off from an airfield in Tunisia. 

P-40's in Tunisia

My Uncle Archie Strugell and his crew.

Front Row left to right: Daniel F. Predpall - Co-Pilot
                                  Stanley Puffington- Waist Gunner
                                  Morris Cutler       - Navigator
Back Row left to right:  Allan W. Clarke    - Tail Gunner
                                  Wallace C. Denny - Ball Gunner
                                  Archie B. Strugell - Flight Engineer
                                  Robert E. Meache -Radio Operator
                                  George Thomas   - Toggeleer
                                  Richard B. Eaton  - Pilot
B-17 in the background was named "Cabin in the Sky" with the 493rd / 861 Sqdn out of DeBach, England.

493rd/861 Sqdn - DeBach, England

Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan. The planes were launched on 18 April 1942.
The wartime censor has obscurred unit patches of the Air Force flight crew members in the background. &quot;Deo Vindice&quot; texag57