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"Capt. Andrew D. Turner, who in a few minutes will be escorting heavy bombers en route to enemy targets, signals to the chief of his ground crew before taking off from a base in Italy. He is a member of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force, which has been smashing enemy objectives in Germany and the Balkans with both fighter and bomber craft. The pilot's plane, a Mustang, is named for a type fo wild horse that once roamed in America." |
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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." |
