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M#

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PHOTO CREDITS

ROVER BOYS BABY

B

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24

J

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180

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CO

44-40752

7

494

865

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00-1

NARA

Starboard (Right) Side - Before Name Applied

Info Contributor - James A. Leddy
Caption on back of photo: "Lt. John A. Thom of Monument Beach, Mass., and 2nd Lt. Bascom N. Lockett of Bristol, VA., with other members of the crew of the 865th Bomb Squadron, 494th Bomb Group, gather around the Consolidated B-24 Liberator ROVER BOYS BABY as the artist puts the finishing touches to a painting on the nose of the plane. Barking Sands Airstrip, Kauai, Hawaii, October 1944."

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