File:View of Sand Island Midway from PB2Y in 1944.jpg
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| Description | View of facilities on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, as seen from the top of the wing of a U.S. Navy Consolidated PB2Y-5 Coronado of Patrol Squadron VP-13, in 1944. The photo may have been taken in early 1944, when fourteen PB2Ys of VP-13 and VP-102 carried out four bombing raids on Wake Island between 30 January and 9 February 1944. 50 tons of ordnance were dropped without sustaining any casualties. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2012.053.001.032 |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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