United States Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, La. fires machine gun on enemy during aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European theatre.
- Date
- c. 1942
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,446 pixels
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