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A painting for the US Army "Stars and Stripes" newspaper shows a downed US Army Air Force pilot fighting off sharks with a knife in 1944 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

Before Shark Week and “Jaws,” World War II spawned America’s shark obsession

Janet M. Davis