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Box 7   Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Museum Collection Images   Album: WAPA 2910   Album: Box 7   47 of 83 50 OroteAirstrip.jpg Description: Overlooking taxiway near the Orote Airfield, Orote Peninsula. Apra Harbor in the background. The fighters operate from the former Japanese airstrip on Orote Peninsula, making daily sweeps over nearby Japanese held Rota Island, though they have not as yet met any enemy aerial opposition Beachhead. September 23, 1944. (USMC 97299) 47 of 83  Gallery: WAPA Gallery   Album: Museum Collection Images   Album: WAPA 2910   Album: Box 7

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