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| Aerial view of Vega Baja Auxiliary Airdrome, Puerto Rico, 10 Feb 1943 | Brigadier General Westside T. Larson, commanding officer of Antisubmarine Command in England, commending Captain Jack H. Shaw, Navigator of B-24D Liberator 'Tidewater Tillie,' at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom after the aircraft sank a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay. | Lieutenant Commander Dudley Morton describing USS Wahoo's third war patrol at a press conference, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, mid-Feb 1943 |
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