Smoke pall over Budapest.

Smoke pall over Budapest. The reconnaissance picture taken after the first Allied Air assault on Budapest, Hungary, shows a huge pillar of black smoke rising from bomb hits scored on the oil refineries, industrial plants and railroad yards by Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force April 4, 1944. Budapest is a main line junction for Axis supplies and troops passing to the Russian, Yugoslav and Italian fronts.