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"With an officer giving them pointers from a giant map, pilots of an American P-51 Mustang fighter-bomber group learn their 'target for today' during a briefing in a base camp in Italy. Both the map and the briefing chart (right) indicate another objective in Germany will soon be on the receiving end of their bullets and bombs. The men are members of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force, whose planes fly as part of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force." |
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"Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Jap positions cleverly concelaed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positions inland on the tiny volcanic island. Ca. February 1945." |
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"Fliers of a P-51 Mustang Group of the 15th AIr Force in Italy 'shoot the breeze' in the shadow of one of the Mustangs they fly. Left to right: Lt. Dempsey W. Morgan, Jr., Lt. Carroll S. Woods; Lt. Robert H. Nelson, Jr., Capt. Andrew D. Turner; and Lt. Clarence P. Lester." |
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"Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress. PhoM3c. Robert M. Warren, ca. February/March 1945." |
