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With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting
in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAF's
79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus
Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape shortly after
the D-Day landings, June 1944. Flying from their base at Kings
Cliffe in Cambridgeshire they have today been tasked to support
the advancing allied forces; they will strafe and bomb the enemy
lines, destroying enemy communications, armour and ground targets,
causing as much chaos and disruption as they can. Dangerous work,
these low-level missions, but tasks that the tough P-38 pilots
relish. |