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Douglas C-54 Skymaster Aircraft
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An ATC (Air Transport Command) Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft is being loaded by two soldiers at the air base on Kwajalein Island of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Another soldier is under the nose of an airplane on the right, and beyond him is a third airplane. Machinery is in the foreground on the left.
March 6, 1945
Doyle, Robert J., 1914-1995
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