F-5E Lighting filming USMC F4U Corsairs dropping napalm on Okinawa on June 15th 1945

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28th Photo-Reconnaissance Squadron F-5E-2-LO Lightning 43-28957 flown out of Yontan airfield in Okinawa by Major E. H. Taylor accompanies F4U Corsairs as they drop napalm during the last stages of the Battle of Okinawa.

The F-5E was carrying USMC cameraman David Douglas Duncan in a converted drop tank as pictured at the end of the clip

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