A full ten-man Liberator bomber crew poses in heavy fleece-lined flight gear, the standard cold-weather ensemble worn on high-altitude missions in unheated, unpressurized aircraft. Group crew portraits like this one were a wartime tradition, taken to commemorate the pilots, navigator, bombardier, and gunners who trained, flew, and fought together as a single team, often the only complete photographic record of a crew before they returned home or were lost in combat. Project: 218677