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US Coast Guard Cutter Duane exchanging blinker signals with a US Navy K-class airship, 1943. Both crafts were serving as convoy escorts in the North Atlantic.	US Marine Corps R4D Skytrains and a rare Douglas R3D at Navy Auxiliary Air Station at Camp Kearny, California (now Miramar), 1943. Note the R3D doorway modified for Marine paratroopers, only 4 such planes existed

US Navy K-class airship locked into a mooring mast at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States, 1943.	US Navy Lt Fred Hunter piloting an OS2U-3 Kingfisher of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 1 as it is catapulted off the cruiser USS Detroit in the Aleutians, 1943-44

US Navy Lt Steve Corneliussen piloting an OS2U-3 Kingfisher of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 1 with his observer, Petty Officer Paul Proffer, as they are catapulted off the cruiser USS Detroit in the Aleutians, 1943-44	US Navy PBM-3 Mariner aircraft of Patrol Squadron VP-204 in flight, 1942-1943

US Navy personnel freeing a PBY-5A Catalina aircraft from frozen waters in the Aleutian Islands at Kodiak Bay, US Territory of Alaska, May 1942-Jan 1943	US pilot Major Robert T. Smith in the cockpit of his B-25H Mitchell bomber, probably China, circa 1940s

USAAF A-20 Havoc aircraft attacking a Japanese airfield at a low altitude, Lae, New Guinea, circa 1943; note G4M bomber on the ground	USAAF Ordinancemen with the 514th Bomb Squadron preparing bombs at Soluch Airfield, Benghazi, Libya, mid-1943. B-24D Liberator “Wash’s Tub” in the background was one of the bombers on the Ploesti Raid of Aug 1 1943.

Ventral machine gun position of a Ki-48 light bomber, circa 1940s	Vickers Type 432 prototype fighter in flight, 1942-1943

Vickers Wellington DWI Mark II with 48-foot diameter, 4,500-pound electromagnetic ring used to explode magnetic mines. Royal Air Force No. 1 General Reconnaissance Unit, Ismailia, Egypt, circa 1943.	WAAF electrician repairing the switches on the engines panel in a Handley Page Halifax aircraft at a Bomber Command station, United Kingdom, 1942-1945

WAAF personnel refueling a Beaufighter Mark VIF of No. 51 Operational Training Unit, RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown	WAAF personnel unloading boxes of 20mm Hispano cannon shells while RAF armourers loaded them for a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945

WAAF personnel working on a Horsa aircraft of the Heavy Glider Conversion Unit at Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; note Whitley glider tugs in background	WAAF signals officer testing the intercom system in an Avro Lancaster aircraft at a Bomber Command station, United Kingdom, 1942-1945

WAFS pilots Barbara London (in cockpit) and Evelyn Sharp, 1942-1944	Waist gunner Clark Gable with 8th Air Force B-17F bomber, United Kingdom, 1943