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"Pilots of a U.S. Army Air Force fighter squadron, credited with shooting down 8 of the 28 German planes destroyed in dogfights over the new Allied beachheads south of Rome, on Jan. 27, talk over the day's exploits at a U.S. base in the Mediterranean theater. Negro members of this squadron, veterans of the North African and Sicilian campaigns, were formerly classmates at a university in the southern U.S." |
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"Flag Raising on Iwo Jima. Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, February 23, 1945." |
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"American pilots of a P-51 Mustang fighter group, whose planes are named after the wild horses that once roamed the U.S., listen intently as they are briefed for a mission at a base in Italy. Like cavalrymen of old, they ride down the enemy in their flying steeds and have destroyed German installations and personnel throughout Europe. They are members of th 15th U.S. Army Air Force, whose fighters and bombers are part of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force." |
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"Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectiles on a run against a Jap stronghold on Okinawa. In the lower background is the smoke of battle as Marine units move in to follow up with a Sunday punch. Lt. David D. Duncan, ca. June 1945." |
