Nauru_Island_under_attack_by_Liberator_bombers_of_the_Seventh_Air_Force..jpg

Description	Nauru Island under attack by Liberator bombers of the Seventh Air Force. A really similar picture appeared on th The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, 3 May 1943 : Jap [Japanese] Base on Nauru Island blazes under attack by United States bombers which on April 21 carried out the longest aerial task force mission of the war - Smoke billows from the important phosphate works and the airfield of the little coral attol seized from the British last August - It is on the equator southeast of the main Jap base at Truk in the Carolines [1] [2]
Source	United States Army in World War II - The War in the Pacific - Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls . OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D.C., 1955. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 55-60002
Author	Philip A. Crowl and Edmund G. Love

This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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