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| Aerial photo showing damage done to Japanese naval base at Dublon Island, Truk Atoll, Caroline Islands, 17-18 Feb 1944 | Brigadier General Boleslaw Duch, Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, and General Wladyslaw Anders, near Cassino, Italy, 17 Feb 1944 |
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| Japanese ammunition ships in Truk Harbor being attacked by dive bombers of USS Intrepid, Caroline Islands, 17 Feb 1944 | Japanese ammunition ships in Truk Harbor destroyed by dive bombers of USS Intrepid, Caroline Islands, 17 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2; the dive bomber that caused this destruction was also lost in the blast |
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| Japanese ammunition ships in Truk Harbor destroyed by dive bombers of USS Intrepid, Caroline Islands, 17 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 2; the dive bomber that caused this destruction was also lost in the blast | Japanese freighter at Truk, Caroline Islands hit by a torpedo dropped from a US Navy squadron VT-10 Avenger aircraft, 17 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Japanese freighter at Truk, Caroline Islands hit by a torpedo dropped from a US Navy squadron VT-10 Avenger aircraft, 17 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 2 | Japanese ships being bombed during attack on Truk, Caroline Islands, 17 Feb 1944; photo taken by an aircraft from USS Intrepid |
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| US Navy F6F Hellcat fighters of VF-10 'Grim Reapers' of Carrier Air Group 10 landed on carrier Enterprise after attack on Truk, 17-18 Feb 1944; note folded wings | USS Miami prowing through a wave during her shakedown cruise, 17 Feb 1944; photo taken from USS Quincy |
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| US Marines pinned down by Japanese fire, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 17-21 Feb 1944 | USS Miami at Trinidad, British West Indies during her shakedown cruise, 19 Feb 1944; note worn Camouflage Measure 32 Design 1d |
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| A group of US Marines observed as an aircraft above strafed Japanese positions ahead, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, circa 18-21 Feb 1944 | Tracer rounds within intensive anti-aircraft fire from the Light Carrier USS Belleau Wood aimed at a Japanese G4M “Betty” bomber attacking at wave-top level off the Mariana Islands, 22 Feb 1944 |
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| USS Wasp (Essex-class) underway off Trinidad, 22 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2 | USS Wasp (Essex-class) underway off Trinidad, 22 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 2 |
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| A Japanese aircraft crashed into the sea near carrier Belleau Wood in the Mariana Islands, 23 Feb 1944; photo taken from USS Essex | General Joseph Stilwell reading a letter at the Forward Echelon Headquarters, Taihpa Ga, Burma, 23 Feb 1944 |
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| Carrier Shangri-La shortly after launching, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944; seen in the US Navy publication USS Shangri-La 1944-1945 cruise book | Josephine Doolittle, wife of James Doolittle, breaking a bottle of champagne at the launching ceremony of carrier Shangri-La, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2; note yard commandant Rear Admiral Felix Gygax holding a microphone near the bottle |
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