Us Official Photographs

8th AAF fighter plane over Nazi airbase

GETTING THEM ON THE GROUND -- These two pictures were taken by the motion picture gun camera of a U.S. 8th AAF fighter plane as it swept in on a Nazi airbase in occupied France, ground-strafing the parked German transports on the field. Flaming gasoline spurts from a twin-engine LEO-45 transport as the American pilots score again. Burning gasoline spouts from a wing, in both pictures, of a parked plane as the U.S. 8th AAF fighters closed in.