Roughly 100 companies, coast to coast, helped Republic Aviation Corporation manufacture each P-47 Thunderbolt.

“How sad it is to think of the touching veneration with which thousands and thousands of people have stood gazing at these pictures. . .and to see them now in unknown hands, victims, they too, of a war that uproots and beats down everything.” -Cesare Fasola

“We didn’t come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.” – Glenn Miller

Watch a moving performance of "Music from the Victims of World War II." 

Often referred to as the “Friendly Invasion,” the mixing of Yanks with British subjects often made for a clash of cultures.