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Back from a bombing attack on the Japs, these Flying Fortress gunners carefully clean their .50 caliber machine guns at a U.S. Army Air Force airbase in the New Hebrides. Left to right: Sergeant Edward T. Spetch of Seymour, Connecticut, and Sergeant Vernon Nelson of Fergus Falls, Minnesota
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Back from a bombing attack on the Japs, these Flying Fortress gunners carefully clean their .50 caliber machine guns at a U.S. Army Air Force airbase in the New Hebrides. Left to right: Sergeant Edward T. Spetch of Seymour, Connecticut, and Sergeant Vernon Nelson of Fergus Falls, Minnesota

1942-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineBack from a bombing attack on the Japs, these Flying Fortress gunners carefully clean their .50 caliber machine guns at a U.S. Army Air Force airbase in the New Hebrides. Left to right: Sergeant Edwar. 1942-01-01. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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