Official description on the back: "After a strafing mission, North American P-51 "Mustangs" snuggle under a wing of a Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" for the trip back to Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. July 1945."

Little buddies

McDonnell XP-67 "Bat/Moonbat", 1944. Only one made. Did not see combat.



Moonbat experimental aircraft

Another return “impossible”: a P-47D Thunderbolt of the USAAF’s 350th Fighter Group, 345th Fighter Squadron, 12th Air Force, Pisa airfield, Italy, likely Spring 1945 (the 350th FG was at Pisa from 2 December 1944 to 14 July 1945). Victor Sierra