Damaged Helldiver crash-landing over Kyushu, Japan, 1945

Gift in memory of Sgt. Lyle E. Eberspecher
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Photograph, aerial. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver aflame and falling towards the land below. Official caption on front: "Navy Helldiver in final plunge over Kyushu. US Navy Photo 125-12." Kyushu, Japan. 1945

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1944
1945
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This collection consists of approximately 1700 official military photographs that were reproduced by the Official Photos Company of Hollywood. Referred to as The War's Greatest Photographs, many of these photographs have been featured in magazines and books and many of the originals can be found in the United States National Archives and Records Administration. The images feature every theater and branch of the military in various campaigns and battles throughout World War II.
Geography: 
Kyūshū
Latitude: 
33.000
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131.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Airplanes--American--Japan
Helldiver (Dive bomber)--Japan
Airplanes--American--Japan
Bombers--American--Japan
Landscape photographs--Japan