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English:
U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1
Corsair
s of Marine Air Group 61 (MAG-61) at Emirau in position along a taxiway to the new aifield which was operational less than two months after the landing on 20 March 1944.
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| Date | Summer 1944 |
| Source | Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph USMC 81362 in Henry I. Shaw, Major Douglas T. Kane, USMC: History of the U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Isolation on Rabaul Vol. II [1] , U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. (USA), 1963 , p. 525. |
| Author | U.S. Marine Corps |
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| 2009-01-17 09:18:48 | 640× 342× | Hawkeye7 | == Summary == {{Information |Description=Corsairs at Emirau in position along a taxiway to the new airport which was operational less than two months after the landing |Source=[http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/History%20of%20the%20U.S.%2 |