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U.S. personnel loading the “whole nine yards” of ammunition into the tail gunner’s section of a B29 in Saipan, 1944. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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U.S. personnel loading the “whole nine yards” of ammunition into the tail gunner’s section of a B29 in Saipan, 1944. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hulton Archive/Getty Images