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USS Wake Island, 1940s; note Camouflage Measure 33, Design 10A and TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft probably of VC-58	View from an American A-20 Havoc aircraft during a bomber run against a Japanese airfield, 1943-1945; note Ki-21 aircraft about to be destroyed

View from the control tower at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England, UK, of P-51D Mustangs of the 360th Fighter Squadron in sandbag revetments, 1944.	View of Sand Island, Midway Atoll from a PB2Y-5 Coronado aircraft in the submarine basin, circa early 1944

Vought OS2U Kingfisher float plane being recovered aboard battleship USS New Jersey, location unknown, 1944	WAAF flight mechanics pulling the chocks from the wheels of a Beaufort Mark I aircraft of No. 51 Operational Training Unit before a training flight from RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944; note a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft in background

WAAF Leading Aircraftwomen Iris Denholm and Doris Evans checking the desert survival equipment of a Hurricane aircraft at a Maintenance Unit in the Middle East, 1944-1945	WASP Betty Gillies flying a P-47 Thunderbolt, circa 1944, location unknown.

WASP pilot Dawn Seymour at the controls of a B-17 Fortress, circa 1944, location unknown.	WAVES personnel washing a SNJ training aircraft, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, circa 1943-1945; note SNB aircraft in background

William Dibble at Chongqing airfield, China, circa 1944	Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, 1940s

Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, 1940s; note fuel pods on wings	Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, 1940s; note open bomb bay

Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, 1940s; note set of 3 pitot tubes along after fuselage	York C Mark I MW140 aircraft 'Endeavour' at RAF Holmesley South, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, 1944-1945

F6F Hellcat fighters warming up aboard USS Cowpens during Marshall Islands Campaign, Pacific Ocean, Jan 1944, photo 1 of 2	F6F Hellcat fighters warming up aboard USS Cowpens during Marshall Islands Campaign, Pacific Ocean, Jan 1944, photo 2 of 2

Fw 58 Weihe (foreground), Fw 190 (right of photograph), and Me 323 Gigant (background) aircraft being serviced, early 1944	P-51B Mustang “Ding Hao!” and Maj James Howard (in cap) of the 356th Fighter Squadron at RAF Boxted, Essex, England, UK; early 1944. See Comment below.