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English: US Navy Lieutenant William Thies (left), pilot of a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina of patrol squadron VP-41, Fleet Air Wing 4, in Alaska during the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1942. Thies discovered the Akutan Zero while on patrol on 10 July 1942. To the right stands Captain Leslie Gehres, commanding officer FAW 4.
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Source Cloe, John Haile (1990) The Aleutian Warriors: A History of the 11th Air Force and Fleet Air Wing 4, Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. and Anchorage Chapter – Air Force Association ISBN: 0929521358. OCLC: 25370916. , p. 137.
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