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THE BIG WEEK - TEAMWORK IN THE AIR • 2025 • VOLUME 52 • NUMBER 2<br />
Missions of the Mighty<br />
P-51 MUSTANG<br />
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<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=4"> FLIGHTLEAD ONE MISSION, ONE TEAM: FLYING FORWARD </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=5"> UNITSPOTLIGHT WINGS OVER THE TULIPS RAINIER SQUAD</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=6"> 6 THE BIG WEEK BREAKING THE BACK OF TH</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=7"> BACKGROUND Aerial bombing can be tactical when ta</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=8"> A formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses heads towar</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=9"> An aerial photograph captures the bombing of AGO </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=10"> Two P-51 Mustangs sit on an English airfiel</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=11"> With the war in Europe ending in May 1945, the tr</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=12"> In the European Theater (ETO), the P-51 became a </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=13"> iterranean Theater 72 Ina the Macon Belle </a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=14"> BRINGING THE BOYS BACK HOME 14 A CAF EFFORT T</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=15"> “Bringing the Boys Back Home is one of those rare</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=16"> Central Texas Wing San Antonio, TX Birming</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=17"> Missouri Wing St. Louis, MO DFW Wing & Coy</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=18"> 18 HOW MUSTANGS WON THE AIR WAR OVER EUROPE In</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=19"> THEY CALLED THEM LITTLE FRIENDS When the P-51 Mus</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=20"> 20 1st Lt. Lawrence “Larry” W. Nelson,</a>
<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=21"> Photo Source: http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/78th</a>
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<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 2 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e6b8be8?page=23"> Gone West </a>
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