IJN (The photo was found and placed in a scrapbook assembled by CDR William H. Balden, USNR, documenting his World War II service).
The photo was found in February 1944 on Saipan in the Marianas and placed in a scrapbook made by CDR William Balden, a naval aviator whose air group, VT-10, was on board the USS Enterprise. The scrapbook photos are now in the National Archives.
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