Photo Album: Edward Wadington: Experiencing War: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress

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Color photograph of Edward Wadington, age 19 circa summer 1943	Group photo of sailors taken during Mr. Wadington's "boot camp" [summer 1943]
Sailors and High School classmates of Ed Wadington, home on leave 1943	Captain W. M. Callaghan, CO of the USS Missouri BB-63, performing inspection before the commissioning of the ship June 11, 1944
The U.S.S. Missouri BB-63 transiting the Panama Canal. Only one inch leeway on each side of ship when going through the locks. Circa autumn 1944	Postcard showing the U.S.S. Missouri BB-63 at sea in camouflage paint Circa autumn 1944
Scouting plane being catapulted off the fantail of the ship Circa 1945	Japanese kamikaze diving into the starboard side of ship April 11, 1945
Remains of Japanese Kamikaze pilot resting against Ed Wadington's gunmount April 11, 1945	The Kamikaze's plane broke up on impact with the plane's machine gun piercing the barrel of Quad 17, 40mm gun April 11, 1945

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