U.S. Air assault on Busigny, France.

U.S. Air assault on Busigny, France. A huge column of smoke rises several thousand feet in the air over Busigny, France, after bombs released by B-26 Marauders of the Ninth U.S. Air Force covered the railroad marschalling yards. Another wave of attacking planes fly over the smoke as they make their run on the same target. Dwarfing all previous records in history a grand total of 81,000 tons of bombs were dropped by Allied bombers on Hitler's Europe during the month of April, 1944. Of these, 48,000 tons were dropped by the United States armadas. The Strategic Air Force the heavis - established a new peak in daylight raids with 39,000 tons. The Second Tactical Air Force dropped 1,700 tons. Marauders and Havoc medium and light bombers of the Ninth U.S. Air Force unloaded nearly 8,000 tons.