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Description 80-G-46497: Operation Dragoon, August-September 1944. Navy Rocket – Firing Hellcats (F6F) wreck German train west of Carcassonne, France. The pilot, Ensign John A. Mooney, USNR, swooped back to take this picture following his strike. Other fliers in Navy strike group attacked immediately and left train in flames. The fighter group was based on USS Tulagi (CVE 72) which participated in the invasion of Southern France in an aircraft carrier task group commanded by Rear Admiral Galvin T. Durgin, USN. Received September 9, 1944. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/07).
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