| Caption | Lt Fred Eberle of the USAAF 333rd Fighter Squadron nursing his damaged P-38 Lighting back to Saipan after receiving battle damage over Iwo Jima, 15 Jan 1945. Photo taken from an accompanying B-24 Liberator. ww2dbase | ||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army Air Force | ||||||||
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| Added By | David Stubblebine | ||||||||
| Added Date | 18 Aug 2017 | ||||||||
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| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". | ||||||||
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"Since peace is now beyond hope, we can but fight to the end."Chiang Kaishek, 31 Jul 1937
18 Aug 2017 08:55:48 PM
Note the hole in the right wing and the feathered left engine with missing propeller hub. The official USAAF caption for this photo notes that this required “a four hour and 40 minute grueling over-water flight, longer than the distance from London to Berlin.”