MEN AT WORK 2

4-17-11

(from the National Archives)

Battle Stations!! The 40mm anti-aircraft guns are manned and ready during Operation Desecrate (the raid on the Japanese stronghold Palau east of Mindanao ) at the end of March 1944.   The Boston (shown here) was a unit of Task Group 38.1. One of the heavy aircraft carriers of the task group is visible on the horizon.

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