More than two million American servicemen and girls handed via Britain for the duration of world warfare two. Many have been primarily based right here with america army Air Forces (USAAF), most of them residing in jap England.
To mark the reopening of the yankee Air Museum at Imperial warfare Museum (IWM) Duxford, photos of a number of those men and women are to be proven along some of the plane that flew on the time. The photographs are drawn from the Roger Freeman collection, which IWM received for the state in 2012.
Here we gift a ramification of the stories of people who determined themselves on the other facet of the Atlantic preventing in opposition to Nazi Germany.
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| Erickson within the nostril of a B-17 Flying fortress |
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| Lt Edwin Wright shows off the damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt, October 1944 |
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| Teetman Jr celebrates New yr's Eve, 1943, with a put up-project sandwich and espresso |
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| O'Brien applies the finishing touches to a cranium on the nose of a B-26 Marauder |
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| Margaret Holley, nee Scott, and her bridesmaids Phyllis, Iris and Mary, July 1945 |
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| Houck dons his devil's helmet previous to a undertaking. |
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| Clever at once after a project, August 1943 |
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| Lt George Hartman (left) and Lt Robert Belliveau examine Yank: the military Weekly at Duxford, August 1943. |
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| Delivering meat from TD Dennis, a butcher's shop in Ashwell, Hertforshire |
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| Repairing a P-47 Thunderbolt at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. |
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| Irwin interviews Lt Glennon "Bubbles" Moran of the 352nd Fighter institution |
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| Hill gets reports on plane positions in the plotting room of the third Bomb division at Elveden hall, Suffolk |
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