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Soviet propaganda poster, showing I-16s and SBs. It says: "Long live the mighty aircraft of the country of socialism!"
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syscom3 said:
On This day 75 years ago. April 4th 1945. One f the more spectacular pictures from the air war was taken.

B-24M Liberator, ac 44-50838, blown in half by a R4M rocket from a Me 262 jet fighter, over Lauenberg, Germany, 4 April 1945. Only one of the crew, Technical Sergeant Charles Cupp, the radio operator survived to become a PoW. On 4th April, 1945, Liberators of the 2nd Air Division were attacked by Me-262 jet fighters. Aircraft from the 448th Bomb Group flying mission No.248 were to bomb jet airfields throughout Germany and forty-five aircraft from Seething attacked the secondary target at Wesendorf due to cloud cover over the primary target at Parchim. Approximately fifty German jet and rocket fighter aircraft engaged the formation causing a total loss of eight B-24 Liberators, three of which were from the 448th BG,

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I've seen this unbelievably graphic photograph before but never knew the true circumstances surrounding it. Thanks for sharing the details!
 
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