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 ww2054.jpg"Task Force 58 raid on Japan. 40mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945, as the carrier's planes were raiding Tokyo. Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, February 1945." |
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ww2054af-amer.jpg"1st Lt. Lee Rayford, who has returned to the United States from Italy where he served with the 99th Fighter Squadron. The nature of his assignment here has not been announced." |
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ww2055.jpg"Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, 6 August 1945." |
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ww2055af-amer.jpg"An armorer of the 15th U.S. Air Force checks ammunition belts of the .50 caliber machine guns in the wings of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane before it leaves an Italian base for a mission against German military targets." |
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