Image:Barrage balloon, Parris Island.jpg

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Description
Polski: Balon zaporowy US Marine Corps, Parris Island, 1942
English: Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID fsa.8b03383
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Date

May 1942
Author

Palmer, Alfred T.
Permission
(Reusing this image)
Public domain This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Marine Corps. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. United States Marine Corps


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current20:57, 23 June 2006507×389 (26 KB)WarXboT ( category:Balloons * '''pl:''' Balon zaporowy US Marine Corps, Parris Island, 1942 * '''en:''' Barriage ballon, US Marine Corps, Parris Island, 1942 ==Author:== Palmer, Alfred T., May 1942, source: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/balloon)
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