Us Official Photographs

Mustangs at 8th Air Force base

Winter's icy grip makes the crewmen's work difficult at this U.S. 8th Air Force fighter base, but the show goes on as skilled mechanics ready the speedy planes for take off -- on time: Shortly after the picture was taken, the Mustangs from the 55th Fighter Group were escorting heavies in an attack on the Karlsruhe marshalling yards behind von Rundstedt's armies.