By that time a flight of "little friends" is on its way upwards. They will provide valuable protection to the bombers...
..against the Luftwaffe which is already quite active this morning.
Another bunch of "little friends" is preparing for take-off. How many Luftwaffe fighters will they be facing today?
Thirty thousand feet over the french coast, the air is cold...very cold. And it's a long way down...
Every gunner in the "Fortresses" is looking concentratedly into the surrounding sky. Those Germans can't be far...