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"With an officer giving them pointers from a giant map, pilots of an American P-51 Mustang fighter-bomber group learn their 'target for today' during a briefing in a base camp in Italy. Both the map and the briefing chart (right) indicate another objective in Germany will soon be on the receiving end of their bullets and bombs. The men are members of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force, whose planes fly as part of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force." Image courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.