An American bomber B-24 Liberator, 559th Bomb Group, 304th Bomb Wing, US Army Air Force, base Giulia, Foggia Airfield Complex, Italy, spinning out of control over target area prior to crash near Vienna, Summer 1944. Victor Sierra

Out of control

B-24s of a Bomb Wing of USAAF’s 15th Air Force leaving Salzburg, Austria, after an air raid, December 1944. Note the different liveries of the planes: olive drab for the first two, bare metal for the other three. Victor Sierra

Leaving Salzburg

Lt. James T. Connally and the crew of B-17C Flying Fortress #40-2062 at Batchelor, Northern Territory after their first bombing raid out of Australia. Nine B-17's staged through Del Monte on Mindanoa to bomb the Japanese landing at Legaspi.