Us Official Photographs
Eighth Air Force Fighters Over Paris
1944-08-17
LOCO-BUSTERS RETURN TO BASE IN ENGLAND AFTER STRAFING PARIS, FRANCE -- Fighters of the Eighth Air Force, over six hundred of them, continued the attack against German transport, 17 August 1944. One thousand railroad cars and other targets were destroyed or damaged in the area surrounding the battle lines. Shown in the cockpit of his Republic P-47 Thunderbolt after his return from loco-busting, is 2nd Lt. Eugene J. Timony of Lakewood, Ohio.
