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Lieutenant Richard E. Duffey, twenty-four, of Walled Lake, Michigan, giving an account at the 57th Fighter Group base in Tunisia of the actions of his group during the air battle of April 18, in which four squadrons of the 57th Fighter Group destroyed seventy-four enemy planes. Lieutenant Duffey destroyed five in a single engagement

Lieutenant Richard E. Duffey, twenty-four, of Walled Lake, Michigan, g...

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Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the 64th Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group, returning after destroying three German Messerschmitt-109s in aerial victory over the Sicilian straits on April 18, in which the 57th United States Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, f...

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Members of the 64th Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group, which took part in the aerial victory over the Sicilian straits on April 18, in which seventy-four enemy planes were destroyed

Members of the 64th Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group, which took par...

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Mrs. Carey and Mrs. Pheobe Watrons [i.e., Miss Phebe Watrous,] seventy-four [sic] and eighty-three years old respectively. Old residents of Ledyard, Connecticut

Mrs. Carey and Mrs. Pheobe Watrons [i.e., Miss Phebe Watrous,] seventy...

Photo shows Miss Phebe Watrous (at left) and Miss Caroline Watrous, who was 11 years younger. They never married, and both died in 1945. (Source: Family member, 2011.)

Palermo, Sicily. Fishing is encouraged by the Allied military government as one of the main sources of food for Sicilians. This fisherman is seventy-four but still sails out every day

Palermo, Sicily. Fishing is encouraged by the Allied military governme...

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Palermo, Sicily. Fishing is encouraged by the Allied military government as one of the main sources of food for Sicilians. This fisherman is seventy-four but still sails out every day

Palermo, Sicily. Fishing is encouraged by the Allied military governme...

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Exterminators lived up to their name. Lieutenant John Stefanik (left) of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and Lieutenant Charles Leaf, of South Orange, New Jersey, display the insignia of their Sixty-Sixth Squadron, one of the units of the Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group, United States Air Force. When the Fifty-Seventh knocked seventy-four Axis planes out of the skies in one air battle, the Exterminators accounted for more that twenty-five

Exterminators lived up to their name. Lieutenant John Stefanik (left) ...

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Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. This couple have changed the varieties of fruit which they grow to meet changed market conditions; they also have garden, pigs, cows, etc. He paid seventy-four thousand dollars for his one hundred fifty acres today and is in fair conditions today

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. This couple have...

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Left to right: Fanny Harra, twenty-two years with the Bach choir, sings second alto, bursar at Moravian Seminary; Elizabeth Graves, first year with the choir, sings second alto, teaches piano at the Seminary; Dr. Arthur Cooley (seventy-four), thirty years with the choir, sings tenor, teaches Greek and French at the Seminary

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Left to right: Fanny Harra, tw...

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Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the Sixty-fourth Squadron of the Fifty-seventy Fighter Group is seen here as he landed after destroying three ME-109's. The Fifty-seventh United States Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes in the same action. Lieutenant Byrnes now has four enemy fighter planes to his credit. He was a pro baseball player with Cincy farm system before the war. Captain Carl A. Nelson, Los Angeles, California, intelligence agen for Sixty-fourth, getting details of Byrnes' part in action

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Lou...

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Lieutenant Richard E. Duffey, twenty-four, of Walled Lake, Michigan, giving an account at the 57th Fighter Group base in Tunisia of the actions of his group during the air battle of April 18, in which four squadrons of the 57th Fighter Group destroyed seventy-four enemy planes. Lieutenant Duffey destroyed five in a single engagement

Lieutenant Richard E. Duffey, twenty-four, of Walled Lake, Michigan, g...

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Dr. Arthur Cooley, seventy-four years of age, a member of the choir for thirty years, sings first tenor

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Dr. Arthur Cooley, seventy-fou...

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