Us Official Photographs

"Hit Parade" got hit

"Hit Parade" got hit. This Flying Fortress of the 8th AAF Bomber Command had completed five missions and had come through unscathed, but on the sixth it suffered battle damage. Pvt. Ray W. Bartles, 22, of 456 Broad St., Hartford, Conn., pulls the number 3 engine. It rains sometimes in England and so he has hung his fatigues under the wing to keep them dry.