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Pressure Points

A page out of "Brief" talking about the pressure points in the Pacific Front as well as a group of soliders flying B-25s. It includes pictures of planes, islands, and soliders.

GLC09620.228

Waterspouts

A clipping of "Waterspouts from Liberator's 50-cal. guns make a pattern around small boat at right, as low-flying 7th AAF planes strafes shipping in Bonins." Same clipping as GLC09620.229.02.

Continuation of "Pressure Points" article (GLC09620.228)...

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Waterspouts

A clipping of just the photo "Waterspouts from Liberator's 50-cal. guns make a pattern around small boat at right, as low-flying 7th AAF planes strafes shipping in Bonins." that has been cut off. Sama clipping as GLC09620.229.01.

Continuation of...

GLC09620.229.02

Davis Closing Order Leaves Future in Doubt

A clipping of a photo showing the Suribachi volcano, a Japanese stronghold.

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Davis Closing Order Leaves Future in Doubt

A photo of the Liberator "Lil Audrey" with two heavyweight champions.

Statistics for the 100 missions flown are painted on the plane.

The date of the clipping was found on Newspapers.com.

GLC09620.231

Davis Closing Order Leaves Future in Doubt

A small article announcing the discontinuation of Camp Davis where Robert L. Stone was sent after he completed forty missions. It will be offered to other war departments and all personnel, patients, and anyone else at the camp will be sent to other...

GLC09620.232

[Newspaper clipping of women at a man's house]

Newspaper clipping of a photo of an older gentleman sitting in a chair, surrounded by a large group of women who appear to be listening intently.

A post-it note included in the collection dated the clipping at November 21, 1946 and wrote "Who?"

GLC09620.233

Davis Closing Order Leaves Future in Doubt

A clipping of a photo that shows a plane exploding while another flies.

GLC09620.234

New Job

A page from a magazine with a photo of three planes flying by an island. On the reverse side there are partial interviews with Joel C. Hart Jr. Robert J. Meade and George P. Michaels.

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Collision

A clipping of a plane that's wing is damaged. Captain reads "Collision over Chichi did this. Pilot Lt Strong still wonders how he got back home."

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Pressure

A clipping of a plane that is flying along the coastline. The caption reads "On prowl for Jap ships, 7th AAF Liberator boldly skirts Chichi Jima's rugged coastline.

GLC09620.237

Pressure

A clipping of a photo showing a plane flying over a very flat island with palm trees missing their fronds. Log cabins lie along the coastline.

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Split Wide Open

A clipping of a photo captioned as "split wide open by the force of the crash, the "Chamber Maid's" fuselage gapes wide to reveal oxygen bottles, torn tubing, wires, and scarttered wreckage."

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Haha Jima Cliffs

A clipping of a photo captioned as "Liberator machinegun fire catches Jap ships fleeing for safety of Haha Jima cliffs."

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Haha Jima Cliffs

A clipping from a magazine of a plane flying by islands, possibly taken from the window of another plane. Printed in blue.
The reverse side shows a soldier in uniform sitting on a wall of sandbags by a large gun.

GLC09620.241

American Bombs Head for Iwo Jima

A clipping from a magazine showing bombs dropping over Iwo Jima. The caption of the photo reads "American bombs head for Iwo Jima in pre-invasion bombing. This picture shows the crisscross patten of Jap defenses, the series of interlocking defenses...

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[Photos of islands]

A clipping from a magazine of two photos that show two pictures of islands. The picture on the left shows a smoke cloud from an explosion. The second image shows a volcano.

GLC09620.243

[Planes grounded]

A magazine clipping of a photo of planes on the ground with two soldiers standing on the right. One plane is flying.

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[Clipping of planes flying over islands]

A clipping from a magazine of two planes flying over islands. Blurred section of the plane where photo was taken makes up top left quarter.

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[Clipping of planes on runway]

A magazine clipping of a photo of planes on the ground. A man in shorts is directing a plane, and the wheel on another plane is in the foreground.

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[Planes over Truk Lagoon]

A magazine clipping of a photo of planes flying with a map of Truk. The caption readings "7th AAF Liberators fly over the Truk lagoon, with 25 miles of key targets visible below." The reverse side has a graphic of the "Pacific Pattern."

GLC09620.247

Legacy of Letters

An article from the Lifestyles section of the Berkshire Eagle newspaper describes how the "Letters in a Box" project began. Mentions that Sheila Stone was going to give the collection to the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

This copy is the same...

GLC09620.248.01

Legacy of Letters

An article from the Lifestyles section of the Berkshire Eagle newspaper describes how the "Letters in a Box" project began. Mentions that Sheila Stone was going to give the collection to the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

This copy is the same...

GLC09620.248.02

Iwo Fierce and Bloody

The front page of the Honolulu Advertiser. Includes photographs of the island of Iwo Jima before and after. Reverse side talks about the Pacific theatre battles in more detail.

Dated Wednesday, February 21, 1944, however February 21, 1944 was a...

GLC09620.249

Landing in Bonins Reported!

The front page of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Includes articles on "U.S. Planes Strike Hitler's Hideout", "Nazis Surrender as West Wall Crumbles", "Fight for Iwo Continues at Furious Pace." Includes two images to go along with the articles.

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