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CG-4A glider making a training landing at Beuzeville Airfield, Sainte-Mère-Église, France, Jun 1944; note invasion stripes.	Close-up view of T30 rocket launchers mounted under the wing of an A-20 Havoc aircraft of 90th Attack Squadron, US 3rd Attack Group, Hollandia, New Guinea, mid-1944

Crew of B-17F Fortress #42-30117 with the 95th Bomb Group posing in front of their airplane at Poltava, Ukraine during an Operation Frantic shuttle mission, summer 1944. The aircraft name translates to Polar Star.	Crews providing maintenance to PV-1 Ventura patrol bombers of US Navy squadron VPB-147 at NAS Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jun 1944; note rocket rails mounted under the wings

Essex-class carrier Yorktown underway in the Mariana Islands, Jun 1944; note camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a; also F6F Hellcat fighters, TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, and SB2C Helldiver dive bombers	George Bush in the cockpit of his TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, mid-1944

Interior of the rear pressurized cabin of a B-29 bomber, Jun 1944	Ju 87D-5 Stuka dive bombers of German Schlachtgeschwader 3 in flight over southern Finland, Jun 1944

Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gabreski shaking hands with his crew chief Staff Sergeant Ralph Safford and his assistant crew chief Felix Schacki (background) before a mission, Jun 1944	Major Walker of USAAF 3rd Bomb Group briefing pilots before a mission, Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, mid-1944

OS2U Kingfisher scout plane being recovered aboard the battleship USS Missouri, 1944-45	P-61 Black Widow 'Tabitha' of USAAF 425th Night Fighter Squadron at RAF Scorton, England, United Kingdom, circa mid-1944

SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944	TBM-1C Avenger bombers prepared to take off from Monterey to attack targets on Tinian, Jun 1944

Top view of a P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight over the English countryside, Jun 1944	US Navy Lt Robert F Doyle shaking hands with his wingman, Ens John F Mudge, after their return from a gunfire-spotting and strafing mission over the Normandy beaches, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK, Jun 1944.

US Pilots of 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group with P-51D Mustang 'Fools Paradise IV' at Maupertus Airfield, Cherbourg, France, Jul-Aug 1944; note Jeep and CCKW fuel truck	USS Iowa in camouflage Measure 32, mid-1944

WASP pilot Florene Watson, one of the original WAF pilots, warming up her P-51D aircraft in Long Beach, California, United States, spring 1944	WASP pilot Helen W. Snapp flying her A-25A Shrike tow aircraft near Camp Stewart, Georgia, United States, Jun 1944