Dense clouds of smoke from earlier attacks by Fifth Air Force tactical aircraft obscures most of the target area as an F-80 Shooting Star stands on its left wing tip banking sharply to line up another Korean Communist target in its gunsights.
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- c. 1951
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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