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| Armourers loading a 1,600-lb bomb onto a Barracuda aircraft aboard HMS Formidable, 1940s | Arthur Coningham, Stanislaw Skalski, and Kazimierz Sosnkowski, 1943 |
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| Austen Mark I submachine gun, 1940s | Australian Catalina aircraft being serviced by No. 1 Flying Boat Maintenance Unit RAAF in Bowen, Queensland, Australia, early 1943 |
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| Australian paratrooper at the Parachute Battalion Training Centre with Austen Mk 1 submachine gun, date unknown | B-17 Flying Fortress bomber 'Pluto' at Port Moresby, Australian Papua, 1942-1943; nose art by Ernie Vandal |
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| B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 414th Bombardment Squadron roll out on steel Marsden Matting in Tunisia, 1943. | B-17E bomber 'Craps for the Japs' of the 43rd Bombardment Group, US 65th Bombing Squadron based at Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea in flight, 1942-1943 |
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| B-17E bomber 'Lak-A-Nookie' of the US 43rd Bombardment Group, 63rd Bombing Squadron in a revetment at Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943 | B-17E bomber 'Yankee Diddler' of 43rd Bomber Group, US 65th Bomber Squadron taking off from Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943; note P-39 fighters in background |
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| B-17E bomber of 42nd Bomb Squadron of USAAF 11th Bomb Group at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1943 | B-17E bomber of the US 43rd Bombardment Group based at Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943 |
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| B-17F Flying Fortress aircraft 'Spotted Cow', assembly ship of 384th Bomber Group, 547th Bomber Squadron, based in RAF Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, England, UK, 1943, photo 1 of 2 | B-17F Flying Fortress aircraft 'Spotted Cow', assembly ship of 384th Bomber Group, 547th Bomber Squadron, based in RAF Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, England, UK, 1943, photo 2 of 2 |
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| B-17F Flying Fortress bomber 'Memphis Belle' visiting Patterson Field on a War Bond campaign, Ohio, United States, 1943 | B-24 in flight, viewed from above, circa 1942-1945 |
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| B-24 Liberator bomber taking off from an advance air field in Kunming, China, circa 1943; note P-40 Warhawk fighters in foreground | B-24D Liberators in formation, early 1943. This was probably a flight to test the visibility of a new National Insignia design. |
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| B-24E Liberator bombers being built at Ford's Willow Run plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, late 1942 or early 1943 | B-25 Mitchell bomber of US Army Air Corps 77th Bomber Squadron, southeast of Attu Island, Alaska, 1943; note radar under nose |
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