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After VE Day, American bomber crews flew "Trolley Missions," - day-long, low-level flights over the continent to show ground crews the results of their efforts. ⁠⁠
A wartime marketplace in Norwich, England, as captured by an American airman.⁠⁠
A destroyed bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands captured during a low-level "Trolley Mission" for ground crews to survey the bombing damage on the continent. Captured May 11, 1945.⁠⁠
An airman lounges on his cot featuring the detested English three-bisquit mattress.⁠⁠
The prop of a B-24 engine whirls above the continent during a bombing mission. ⁠⁠
The bomb bay doors of a B-24 are rolled partially open for bomb loading in advance of a combat mission.⁠⁠
The wreckage of a B-24 bomber crash. Here, a ground crewman is seen with a hose, attempting to put out the fire fueled by full tanks of high-octane fuel.⁠⁠
Clyde Cheeks stands next to a bomb destined to be dropped on Fortress Europe. ⁠⁠

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