B-26-b "Marauder", 449th BS, 332nd BG, 9th Air Force. During Ardennes Operation, December 1944.

Flak Bait" was stationed in eastern England with the 9th Air Force. For two years, the aircraft took everything the Germans could throw at her, including shrapnel from flak and machine-gun bullets from enemy fighters, and became the top American bomber to survive the most missions of World War II.