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Photographer Loomis Dean shot this picture through the blister of a Boeing B-29 that led the North American P-51's to Japan. To break the monotony and loneliness of their long trip to Japan, the P-51 pilots often talk - via radio - to the men in the B-29. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Shown, 458th Fighter Squadron P-51s