US Navy aerial bombing of a Japanese airbase, Mili Atoll

Gift in memory of Sgt. Lyle E. Eberspecher
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Photograph, aerial. Columns of smoke rising from a Japanese airbase after a United States Navy aerial bombardment. Official caption on front: "Jap airstrip on Mille [sic] under attack. US Navy Photo 128-19." Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands. No date

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1943
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: 
Mili
Latitude: 
6.133
Longitude: 
171.983
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Air bases--Japanese--Marshall Islands
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Marshall Islands
Bombings--Mili
Air bases--Japanese--Mili
Smoke--Mili