Thunder in the Ardennes by Anthony Saunders. (B) PER244 With its starboard engine on

With its starboard engine on fire

and then fly on to a dawn landing at secret airfields on the coast of China

falling masonry

remain undimmed

Thunder in the Ardennes by Anthony Saunders. (B) PER244 With its starboard engine onDHM6484B. Thunder in the Ardennes by Anthony Saunders. P 47 Thunderbolts of the 509th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter Group, pass low over paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division advancing through heavy snow during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945. Major Robert 'Blackie' Blackburn, in his distinctive aircraft Chow Hound, leads his unit as they head out on a morning low level bombing mission. In the early hours of 16th December 1944, out of