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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver recognition page from a joint Army-Navy recognition manual, Apr 1943.	Exploded view of the TBM-1C Avenger

Italian BR.20 bomber recognition guide as seen in US War Department 'Recognition Pictorial Manual' publication FM 30-30, circa Apr 1943	Light Carrier USS Independence in port, 1943

P-38G Lightning “Miss Virginia” after a belly landing at Fighter Strip #2, Kukum, Guadalcanal, Apr 1943. Days earlier, this plane, flown by Rex Barber, shot down the G4M bomber carrying Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville	Three P-38 Lightnings overfly the crew of a PBY-5A Catalina practicing the recovery of downed airmen, Solomons, 1942-43

US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft of VB-136 squadron flying above the Aleutian Islands, Mar-Jun 1943	US Navy Scouting Squadron 44 (VS-44) maintenance crew working on a land-variant OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, Hato Field, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, circa early to mid 1943

An F4U-1 Corsair with its gear down, flaps down, and hook down prepares to trap aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 2 Apr 1943.	An US Army Air Corps pilot landing his BT-13 Valiant aircraft at Gunther Field in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, 7 Apr 1943

Lieutenant Walter A. Haas in the cockpit of a F2A Buffalo aircraft, Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943	US Navy ordnanceman loading .50 caliber ammunition for a F2A Buffalo fighter, Naval Air Station Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943

Commander of the 13th Air Force Lt General Nathan Twinning (pith helmet) posing with some of the pilots from the Yamamoto mission, 19 Apr 1943. Lt Rex Barber is at far right next to mission commander Maj John Mitchell.	The men of the 347th Fighter Group who flew the mission to intercept Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. The photo is single frame of a movie taken on Kukum Field, Guadalcanal on 19 Apr 1943, the day after the attack.

The three survivors of the Yamamoto mission attack section, Captain Thomas Lanphier (section leader), Lieutenant Besby Holmes, and Lt Rex Barber at Kukum Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 19 Apr 1943.	Wreck of G4M bomber whose crash killed Admiral Yamamoto, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Apr 1943

1Lt Charleton 'Hugh' Cuppernell, the co-pilot of this B-24D Liberator 'Superman' peering through a hole in the aircraft from a 20mm shell over Nauru, Apr 20 1943. The photo was taken at Funafuti, Gilbert Islands; photo 1 of 3	1Lt Louis Zamperini, bombardier of this B-24D Liberator 'Superman' peering through a hole in the aircraft from a 20mm shell over Nauru, Apr 20 1943; photo taken at Funafuti, Gilbert Islands; photo 2 of 3

1Lt Louis Zamperini, bombardier of this B-24D Liberator 'Superman' peering through a hole in the aircraft from a 20mm shell over Nauru, Apr 20 1943; photo taken at Funafuti, Gilbert Islands; photo 3 of 3	B-24 Liberator of the US 307th Bomb Group over the smoking airstrip on Nauru Island after being bombed, Apr 20, 1943.