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Bomber crews of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force are being given a chalk talk by Major Frank W. Delong, squadron commander, before they take off on a mission over Axis territory. Tunisia, April, 1943.
These are the heavy bomber groups who are disrupting Axis shipping in the Mediterranean, thus hastening the defeat of the remaining in North Africa. Photographer: Nick Parrino.
- Date
- 1943-04
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 7,218 × 4,817 pixels
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