U.S. ACE FIGHTER PILOTS MEET PRESS IN LONDON. Three Eighth U.S.

U.S. ACE FIGHTER PILOTS MEET PRESS IN LONDON. Three Eighth U.S. Air Force Mustang fighter plane pilots meet at a press conference in London November 22, 1944, the day after they distinguished themselves in an air battle over the Leuna synthetic oil plants Merseburg, Germany.(...) They were part of an escort of more than 1000 U.S. fighter planes which accompanied bombers raiding oil-producing plants in Central and Western Germany and the Ruhr.Targets also included the Deutsche refinery at Hamburg and the neighboring Rhenania refinery at Hamburg.