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TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45.

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Caption     TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45. ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Northern Solomons, British Western Pacific Territories
Date  1944
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps via the Bobby Rocker Collection
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 1,600 x 1,252 pixels



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