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United States. Army Air Forces O'er the ramparts we watch/United States Army Air Force

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09520.11 Author/Creator: United States. Army Air Forces Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: circa 1944 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 63.4 cm, Width: 48.2 cm Order a Copy

Image by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897-1982) depicting a young man with dark hair stands in the clouds, holding a large rocket-shaped bomb. He wears a brown leather bomber jacket and a silver I.D. bracelet. Small images of military airplanes fly in the clouds below him.
Published by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minn.

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