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Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, date and location unknown, photo 2 of 4; note open bomb bay	Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, date and location unknown, photo 3 of 4

Yokosuka P1Y Ginga Navy Type 11 medium bomber, date and location unknown, photo 4 of 4; 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.

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	San Jacinto underway off the US east coast, 23 Jan 1944, photo 1 of 2; note SNJ training plane on flight deck

San Jacinto underway off the US east coast, 23 Jan 1944, photo 2 of 2; note SNJ training plane on flight deck	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.