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Royal Air Force Fortress IIA of Coastal Command 220 Squadron based at Benbecula, Scotland flying over the islands of the Hebrides west of Scotland, May 1943.	United States Coast Guard PBY-5A Catalina with Patrol-Bombing Squadron 6 on the ramp at Bluie West One air strip, Narsarssuak, Greenland (now Narsarsuaq), 1943.

US Marines lining up for physical drills on USS Cowpens' flight deck, probably in the Pacific Ocean while en route to US Territory of Hawaii, circa mid-1943; note inflatable life belts, SK radar antenna mounted on the stub mast between the stacks, and F6F, SBD, and TBM aircraft	Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, right, boards a PBY-5A on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, after an inspection visit, May 1943. The others are USMC BGen Francis Mulcahy, USN RAdm Charles Mason, and Army MGen Alexander Patch.

Wildcat fighters flying in formation, circa mid-1943	Wing of a Ju 52/3m aircraft (foreground), wreck of a Me 323 Gigant aircraft (center), damaged Hs 129B aircraft (behind Me 323), and damaged Fw 190A-4 aircraft (right edge of background) at El Aouiana Airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943

With trucks lined up along the airstrip, CG-4A gliders land in groups of three at a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943.	Wreck of a Me 323 Gigant aircraft, Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943, photo 1 of 2

Wreck of a Me 323 Gigant aircraft, Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943, photo 2 of 2	Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10) circa mid-1943 with Hellcat fighters and Helldiver dive bombers on her flight deck

Note the broad wings of the TBF Avenger, the largest US carrier plane of WWII, as it makes its take-off run down the flight deck of the Light Carrier USS Independence, Caribbean Sea, 1 May 1943.	SBD-3 Dauntless, F4F-4 Wildcat, and TBF-1 Avenger aircraft aboard USS Enterprise, northeast of Nouméa, New Caledonia, 2 May 1943; note USS Washington in background

Brigadier General Haywood Hansell and Colonel Curtis LeMay in front of B-17F “Dry Martini – The Cocktail Kids 4” at Chelveston, England, on the occasion of Hansell’s last combat flight, 4 May 1943.	Cruiser USS Boise passing carrier USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States, 6 May 1943. Note Boise’s Measure 22 paint scheme and F6F-3 Hellcat fighter on Yorktown’s deck-edge elevator.

Japanese pilot Hiroyoshi Nishizawa flying his A6M3a Model 22 Zero fighter in the Solomon Islands area, 7 May 1943	USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 1 of 3; note three TBD Devastator aircraft on the fantail

USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 2 of 3; note TBD Devastator and PV-1 Ventura aircraft on flight deck	USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 3 of 3; note two PV-1 Ventura aircraft

Chinese observers attached to Allied units posing with a captured German Fw 190 fighter, North Africa, 15 May 1943; left to right: Major Huang, General Lam (Air Force), General Hu Xianqun, Colonel Lee (military intelligence)	B-17F “Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile” and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, May 17 1943. This photo was taken from B-17 “Memphis Belle” on her last combat sortie.