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Tokyo Raider in Hands of Japanese

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09553.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 18 April 1942 Pagination: 1 silver gelatin ; 16.9 x 21.5 cm. Order a Copy

A black and white photograph of a blindfolded U.S. Army Air Corps officer being led from a plane by two Japanese soldiers. There is a press clipping in the photograph and an block of the photo is obscured by a white bar. The back of the photograph is dated February 25, 1943. Attached to the back of the photograph is a typed note describing the photograph.

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