Lt. Charles E. Kerlee, USNR, steps down from the wing of a TBF after photographing the raid on Wake. Using two K-20 cameras, Kerlee squeezed in behind the pilot and stood for four hours to get his pictures.
- Date
- 1943-10-06
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 3,175 × 3,271 pixels
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