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FIGHTER CHIEF PLANS PACIFIC STRIKE — At a 7th Fighter Command Base on Iwo Jima, Brig. Gen. Ernest M. "Mickey" Moore, right, chief of the 7th Fighter Command in the Pacific, briefs Group Commander Col James O. Beckwith, Jr., 48 Grove Street, Burlington, Vt., on plans for a new fighter attack in the Japan theatre.


80 posted on 11/22/2014 5:41:36 PM PST by caww
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Shortly after their arrival on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, on an inspection tour, Lt. General Barney M. Giles (center) and Lt. General James Doolittle talk with personnel of the VII Fighter Command. 21 May 1945.

Gen. Doolittle (then a Lt. Col.) led the Tokyo raid on 18 April 1942.


81 posted on 11/22/2014 5:43:42 PM PST by caww
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