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"A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his companion ducks for cover. The division is working to take Wana Ridge before the town of Shuri. S.Sgt. Walter F. Kleine, Okinawa, 1945." |
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"Lt. Andrew D. Marshall, pilot in a Negro fighter group of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force had his plane shot up by flak during a strafing mission over Greece before the Allied invasion. When he came down all that was left of the plane was his engine and himself. But he only suffered from some cuts and bruises. Greeks hid him from the Nazis, then directed him to the British forces when they parachuted into Greece." |
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"With the captured capital of Naha as a background, Marine Maj. Gen Lemuel Shepherd, commanding general of the 6th Maine Division, relaxes on an Okinawan ridge long enough to consult a map of the terrain." |
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"USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan. July 1945." |
