II World War contrails
B-17 of J Group. Captions from published books: "FIGHTERS protect bomber formations at high altitudes where thin, freezing air makes vapor trails like these left by P-47s."
- Date
- 1943–1944
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Sgt. Stanley M. Smith
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,024 × 816 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (US Air Force).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Air Force; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"II World War contrails" (1943–1944). Sgt. Stanley M. Smith, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:II_World_War_contrails.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 103714.
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