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80-G-490125: Raids on Japanese Home Islands, July 14, 1945

80-G-490125: Raids on Japanese Home Islands, July 14, 1945. U.S. Navy carrier-based planes attack Japanese planes with rockets on Misawa airfield on Honshu, Japan, July 14, 1945. A U.S. plane streaks in, (left center), and launches its rockets at Japanese planes. Some of the enemy planes are already flaming after being hit by other planes in the attack. The ground marker (in center of photograph) is a Japanese marker for orientation for their pilots. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/08).
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Caption: Raids on Japanese Home Islands, July 14, 1945. U.S. Navy carrier-based planes attack Japanese planes with rockets on Misawa airfield on Honshu, Japan, July 14, 1945. A U.S. plane streaks in, (left center), and launches its rockets at Japanese planes. Some of the enemy planes are already flaming after being hit by other planes in the attack. The ground marker (in center of photograph) is a Japanese marker for orientation for their pilots. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/08).
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