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| Anti-aircraft gun crews aboard Light Carrier USS Langley roll with the ship in heavy seas in the South China Sea, Jan 18, 1945 | Louis Mountbatten observing Mandalay from a distance aboard a WC command car, Burma, 13-18 Jan 1945 | Louis Mountbatten studying a map near Mandalay, Burma aboard a WC command car, 13-18 Jan 1945 | OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on the fantail of USS New Jersey or USS Wisconsin, off Taiwan, 18 Jan 1945; note 16-inch guns in foreground and USS Hornet in background |
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