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Celebrations   Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Images of war   Album: Celebrations   2 of 8 NA_626.jpg Description: Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS Lexington after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa. November 1943. (Navy 80-G-470985, National Archives). 2 of 8  Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Images of war   Album: Celebrations

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