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| Japanese light cruiser Isuzu hit by an aerial Mark XIII torpedo dropped from a TBF-1 Avenger flown by Lt(jg) E.F. Ternasky flying from USS Lexington (Essex-class), Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 4 Dec 1943 | Strike photo of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands taken by aircraft from USS Enterprise, 30 Jan 1944. Note the Kwajalein radio complex in the clearing in the foreground that was a key Japanese listening post in the Pacific. |
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| Strike photo of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands taken by aircraft from USS Enterprise, 30 Jan 1944. Note the rising mushroom cloud from the exploding Japanese ammunition dump. | Soldiers of the US Army 7th Division moving a 37mm M3 anti-tank gun by hand to follow behind an M4 Sherman tank on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Feb 1944. Note the visibility panels worn by the gun crew. |
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| USS Coral Sea a short distance off Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1 Feb 1944; photo taken from USS Manila Bay | TBF-1C aircraft having just been jettisoned from USS Coral Sea near Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 7 Feb 1944 |
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| USS Langley at anchor in Kwajalein Lagoon, 8 Feb 1944 | B-24 Liberators of the 27th and 38th Bombardment Squadrons, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, June 1944. |
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