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Ack Ack in the sky

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“Ack Ack in the sky: When Japanese bombers attempted to sneak in on Cape Gloucester under cover of darkness, Marine units there sent up this concentration of ack-ack tracer fire. It makes very pretty pattern picture but the Japanese didn’t appreciate it and they abandoned the attack.”

USMC Photo 127-GR-87 by Sgt. George Sylvester

The quiet before the storm

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1941 Original Press Photo dated December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows a class of sailors in class as they train to become part of a water-cooled M2 .50-caliber Browning AAA gun crew.