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.THUNDERBIBO"
Ulon
entering
the
Second
World War
exhtbit
at
the
National
Air
and
Space
l\4useum,
visitors
are
overuhelmed
by an awesome
in{light
mural
of
bomb-läden
Flying
Fortresses lumberinq lhrough
enemy flak
burstiand
maraudino German
I-ighters. The industrial region
of
Gerrnany
lies
betow, and
vou
can-
leel
the
incredible tension that gripped
the
bomber crews
as
their aircraft rjroned toward
thi
target.
The lead
aircraft
in
this
breathtaking diorama was
a combat
veteran
known
as
-Thunderbrrd."
AIong
with thirty.eighiof
her c0mrades,
this
303rd Bombardment
Uroup
ts-1
/G ,0rmed
a
small part ot
a
masslve airborne wave of 1,722
aircraft.
The
mrssron depicted
actually occurred
on
August
lsth,
1944, and
it
was the
72nd
mrssion
that
Thunderbird
'
participated
in.
'ThunderDird
was typical
0f
the thousands
of
Flyinq
Fortresses
that
were
constructed, maintained, and
llown
for the sole purpdse
ot
defeatin0
the
Third
Reich.
They
spearheaded
the Allied strategic bombrng
eftort.
Week
äfter
week,
these
rugged
tombers
carried their crews
to
and
from
the target. Lacking
thd
chansma and fame
of
lhe single-seat
lighlers
the heavy bombers
"were
inslruinen-
tal in
lhe
success
of
the Allied
war etfort.
By
the end
oi the
war,
Ihunderbiro's
'116
miss_ion
tally only hastened her ultimate
ilemise,
but she is
preservedforever
in
a beautiful depiction
0f
aviation history.
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