Big Brothers and Little Friends : the enduring bond between the bomber crews and fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth Air Force in their prolonged and hotly contested air war against Hitlers Nazi Germany
Colonel Blake's horse was wounded in three places
Theirs was typical of the action packed campaigns flown by the American Eighth Air Force bomb groups in Europe during WWII
Prince Karl von Mecklenburg with East Prussian Cavalry at the Engagement of Goldberg
not only hold the world's most powerful air force at bay
Lucky 13 by David Pentland. SHN164 Big Brothers and Little FriendsDP0165. Lucky 13 by David Pentland. St Nazaire, France, 3rd January 1943. The Fw190A4 of Georg Peter Schorsch Eder, 7 JG2, streaks past Meat Hound, a B17F of th 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group en route to attack the U boat pens at St Nazaire. Along with his Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, it was Eder who pioneered the head on pass tactic against the Flying Fortresses. On this day he to achieve his thirteenth victory, and second B17. By the end of