Two soldiers beside a Piper Cub aircraft on the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Two soldiers beside a Piper Cub aircraft on the beach. "L-5 artillery plane prepares for reconnaissance flight, New Britain." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. [1944]
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1944
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Gloucester, Cape
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Airplanes--American--New Britain
Beaches--New Britain
Military reconnaissance--American--New Britain