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Description Fourteen U.S. Navy Consolidated PB2Y-5 Coronado planes of patrol squadrons VP-13 and VP-102 anchored in the submarine basin at Sand Island, Midway Atoll, on 29 January 1944. These aircraft carried out four bombing raids on Wake Island between 30 January and 9 February 1944. 50 tons of ordnance were dropped without sustaining any casualties.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the U.S. National Archives [1], available at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument website of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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