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TBM-1D Avenger at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, 1943-44. Note the radome on the starboard wing.	Waco CG-4 with US 101st Airborne men; note BAR, M1 Garand, Thompson M1A1, M1A1 Bazooka, Springfield 1903; possibly a training jump due to peeling PFC stripes; circa early 1944

An element of TBM-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-32 assigned to Light Carrier USS Langley flying south from their temporary training base at Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 3 Jan 1944. Note Ko'olau Mountains.	A rocket attack on the German Type VIIC Submarine U-758 by TBF Avengers from USS Block Island northeast of the Azores, 11 Jan 1944. Note two rockets hitting just astern of the U-Boat. U-758 was damaged but not sunk.

A-36A Mustang aircraft 42-84067 of the 527th FBS, 86th BFG, Gaudo Airfield, southern Italy, 14 Jan 1944; note chin-mounted guns and the bombing mission markings on the cowl	Ten B-24 Liberators of the 451st Bomb Group line up for take-off from Telergma, Algeria bound for their new base at Gioia del Colle, Italy, 20 Jan 1944.

WASP pilots at Laredo Army Air Force Base, Texas, United States, 22 Jan 1944; note B-26 Marauder, AT-6 Texan, and C-56 Lodestar aircraft in background	USS San Jacinto underway off Virginia, United States, 23 Jan 1944; note camouflage Measure 33 Design 7A and SNJ training plane on flight deck; photographed from a Squadron ZP-14 blimp

USS San Jacinto underway off Virginia, United States, 23 Jan 1944; note SNJ training plane on flight deck; photographed from a Squadron ZP-14 blimp	Battleships Iowa and Indiana underway during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 24 Jan 1944; note ships with Camouflage Measure 32 Design 1B and wing of SB2C Helldiver aircraft in foreground

USS Intrepid under way 26 Jan 1944 on her way to launch strikes against Truk Atoll (now Chuuk). Note the forward flight deck filled SBD Dauntless and TBF Avenger aircraft and one F4U Corsair on the outrigger sponson.	United States Navy K-class airship K-28 of Blimp Squadron 14 during escort duty above the armed tanker SS Paulsboro about 80 miles off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States, 27 Jan 1944.

PB2Y-3 Coronado aircraft of US Navy squadrons VP-13 and VP-102 in the submarine basin of Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 29 Jan 1944	A Model 187 Baltimore light bomber of Royal Air Force 223 Squadron flying from Celone, Italy drops bombs on the railway junction at Sulmona, a strategic point on the east-west route across Italy, in February of 1944

A sailor securing a K-class airship to a mooring mast at Moffett Field, San Jose, California, United States, Feb 1944.	African-American aircraft mechanics George Johnson and James C. Howard of the US Army 99th Fighter Squadron, Italy, Feb 1944

Armorers loading belts of .50 caliber ammunition into the four ammo trays in one wingtip of a P-47 thunderbolt, date and location unknown.	Avenger Mk II (TBF-1C) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force 30 Squadron at Turtle Bay airstrip, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, Feb 1944.

Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft taking a break from flying “The Hump” at Chabua Field, India, circa Feb 1944	F4U-1A Corsair flown by Lt(jg) Ira Kepford of Navy Squadron VF-17 at Ondonga Field, New Georgia, Solomons, 1944.