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C-47 Returns
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A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the final months of World War II in the Pacific.
March 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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