American Air Museum in Britain

"Not many pictures like this one come out of the war. You are looking out of an American Flying Fortress at a Nazi Messerschmidt 410 less than 25 feet off the bomber's wing, just as the fighter pulls away to start its dive. The photograph was taken by Sgt Victor A Labruno 22, 419 2nd St Jersey City NY while he was flying as a combat aerial photographer during a US army 8th AF attack on the synthetic oil plants at Brux, near the border of Czechoslovakia. As more than 100 German fighters attacked the formation of Flying Fortress. Sgt LaBruno crouched in the radio room of the Boeing B-17 'Lady Godiva' and caught this unusually near shot of a Nazi fighter. In civilian life, Sgt LaBruno was a photographer in NY City."

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