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Wide city street flanked by multi-story buildings, Scotland, February 1944

Photograph. Wide city street flanked by multi-story buildings.

Wide main road, Philippines

Photograph. Wide paved road with shuttered buildings on both sides. Completely empty of vehicles and pedestrians.

Wide plaza with milling tourists leads to gates of Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, February 1944

Photograph. Wide plaza with milling tourists leads to gates of Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh, Scotland. February 1944

Wide plaza with milling tourists leads to gates of Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, February 1944

Photograph. Exterior view of Edinburgh Castle and tourists existing the gates. Edinburgh, Scotland. February 1944

Wide street in a town, Germany, 1945

Photograph. Wide boulevard and 19th century buildings in small town. Germany. 1945

Wide, flat road with Army vehicles and a crane in the distance. Umnak. 1944

Photograph. Wide, flat road with Army vehicles and a crane in the distance. Striped wooden caution barrier in foreground.

Wildcat chasing a Japanese bomber through clouds of antiaircraft flak, Pacific Ocean, 1944

Photograph. Grumman F4F Wildcat [center] chasing a Japanese bomber [right] through clouds of antiaircraft flak near an American aircraft carrier.

Wildcat flying over Makin Island, 1942

Photograph, aerial. Grumman F4F Wildcat flying over Makin Island; smoke from bombings visible below.

Wiley Lowery and Bill Ruffin walking down a sidewalki, 1941

Photograph. Wiley Lowery [left ]and Bill Ruffin [right] walking down a sidewalk in civilian clothes.