Valor In Pacific

By Robert Taylor 

B-29 bombers with P-51 escorting them home... Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of victory in the bitterly contested three and a half year Air War in the Pacific, Robert Taylor's magnificent reconstruction shows a mission during the final stages of that momentous conflict. Depicted are B-29s of the 499th Bomb Group, 73rd Wing of the 20th Air Force, after a daylight raid on Tokyo. At the extremity of their range, "little friends", very-long-range P-51 Mustang escort fighters, peel off and head for home - reluctantly leaving the mighty bombers to fend for themselves