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WASP's are listening intently as they are briefed on the nuances of formation flying.
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A U.S. Navy TBM Avenger trailing smoke, returning to the fleet aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 March 1945.

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Inspecting the guns of a captured Ki-43-II Otsu.
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Paratroopers (front row) of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, with GIs from the 4th Infantry Division that landed at Utah Beach. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France. 7 June 1944. No photo credit available.

I got to meet several of them when they came to our base as part of a USO tour. The soldiers came with the actors who portrayed them in Band of Brothers.
 
Sm.79 of the 253 Squadriglia torpedo bomber unit
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