US Army Air Force

B-24 Liberator in China

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Landing wheels recede as this U.S. Army Air Forces Liberator bomber crosses the shark-nosed bows of U.S. P-40 fighter planes at an advanced U.S. base in China. An American soldier waves good luck to the crew, off to bomb Japan., ca. 1943 One of the goals of the Ichigo Operation of 1944 was to take the airfields from where the Americans launched their air attacks against Japan. ------------------------ Evillittlekenny