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| B-17F Fortress “Talisman” warming up before take-off from Jackson’s Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943. This plane carried Douglas MacArthur to and from the battle zones in New Guinea. | C-47 Skytrain transports loaded with paratroopers bound for the raid on Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943 at the Port Moresby 7-Mile Aerodrome. Note General MacArthur and General Kenney standing at the lower left. |
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| Gen Douglas MacArthur shaking the hand of his pilot, Col Harry Hawthorne, after observing the airborne paratroop drop at Nazdab, New Guinea from his B-17F “Talisman.” 5 Sep 1943 photo at 7-Mile Aerodrome, Port Moresby, New Guinea. | United States Army paratroopers dropped from C-47 Skytrains parachuting into Nazdab, New Guinea behind a smoke screen, 5 Sep 1943. |
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| A P-47D Thunderbolt that crashed on take-off, Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1943. Photo 1 of 3. | A P-47D Thunderbolt that crashed on take-off, Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1943. Photo 2 of 3. |
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| A P-47D Thunderbolt that crashed on take-off, Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, 7 Sep 1943. Photo 3 of 3. | RAAF Flight Sergeant Roberts Dunstan posing outside of a tail gun position of a Lancaster bomber, Britain, 9 Sep 1943 |
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| Baltimore off Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 10 Sep 1943; note two OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes on catapults | A German glider trooper next to a DFS 230 C-1 glider damaged during landing, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| Destroyed frame of a DFS 230 C-1 glider after use, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 | DFS 230 gliders at Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| German airborne trooper destroying a crash-landed glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 | German airborne troops near a Fi 156 Storch aircraft, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 7 | German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 7 |
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| German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 3 of 7 | German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 4 of 7 |
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| German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 5 of 7 | German DFS 230 C-1 glider at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 6 of 7 |
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