Japanese soldier being hit in the head by his own flag pole. Flag pole was cut in half by a U.S. torpedo that has "U.S. Marines" written on it. Japanese soldier's saber has gone flying from the impact while the soldier sees stars. On recto: MCPB 104742 8-28-42 9M. Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL, 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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