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TITLE: Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the Sixty-fourth Squadron of the Fifty-seventy Fighter Group is seen here as he landed after destroying three ME-109's. The Fifty-seventh United States Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes in the same action. Lieutenant Byrnes now has four enemy fighter planes to his credit. He was a pro baseball player with Cincy farm system before the war. Captain Carl A. Nelson, Los Angeles, California, intelligence agen for Sixty-fourth, getting details of Byrnes' part in action

CALL NUMBER: LC-USW3- 028560-E [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USW3-028560-E (b&w film nitrate neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1942 and 1945]

NOTES:

Title and other information from caption card.

Annotation on original negative jacket.

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches).

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

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Film copy on SIS roll 14, frame 910.

SUBJECTS:

Africa--North Africa.

FORMAT:

Nitrate negatives.

PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8d29658 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d29658

CONTROL #: owi2001028105/PP

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