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B-29 Bomber Landing
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A B-29 bomber plane landing at North Field in Guam after its first fire raid on Tokyo. A tree is in the center foreground with three men sitting around it watching the plane land. On the other side of the air strip are low buildings with pointed roofs and two trucks.
March 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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