The Americans formed up during the day, often climbing out through
dense cloud

One of the more famous paragraphs that Stephen Ambrose stole from
Thomas Childers had to do with this:

"Up, up, up he went, until he got above the clouds. No amount of
practice could have prepared the pilot and crew for what they
encountered--B-24s, glittering like mica, were popping up out of the
clouds over here, over there, everywhere."

http://www.warbirdforum.com/copycat.htm

They may not have FORMED UP in the cloud, but they had plenty of
opportunities to collide on their way to the formup.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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