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P AGE 2: The light carrier Belleau Wood was hit by a kamikaze aircraft but survived.

PAGE 3 : U.S. troops survey Japanese gun emplacements after they had captured the tiny island of Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands group, in an immensely costly battle between November 20 and 23, 1943. RIGHT : The mushroom cloud rises over Hiroshima after the U.S. atomic bombing of this port city on August 6, 1945. . PAGE 6 : A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 planes.

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