Identifier2007-08-08_image_122SourceThe Lee R. Embree Collection (2007-08-08), Box 2, Folder 2DescriptionPhotograph of a Ninth Army Air Force colonel and a Red Cross field director with a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, North Africa, circa 1943-1944.
Typed caption glued to verso: "Ninth U.S. Army Air Force presses offensive against Germans. An American colonel (right), leader of a heavy bomber group of the Ninth U.S. Army Air Force, talks with an American Red Cross field director after returning to his desert base in North Africa from a successful mission. The plane is a four-motored B-24 Liberator, of the type which blasted the oil fields and refineries at Ploesti, Romania, on Aug. 1, 1943, in a daring low-level attack against one of Germany's most important gasoline and oil sources. Planes of the Ninth Air Force also conducted the first raid on Rome, bombing military targets, and struck deep into enemy territory to raid Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from their African base, in addition to many other missions against the Germans in North Africa and Italy. Serviced by New York to List L. 16474-FO. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority."Creation Datecirca 1943-1945SubjectUnited States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 9thUnited States. Army Air ForcesSoldiersConsolidated B-24 Liberator FamilyAirplanes, MilitaryWorld War, 1939-1945 International Red CrossPlaceAfrica, NorthOriginal Formatphotographic printsBibliographic CitationThe Lee R. Embree Collection/The Museum of FlightRightsNo copyright - United States
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