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D4Y2-S prototype aircraft, Yokosuka Navy Air Corps Oppama Base, Japan, summer 1944	Destroyed Japanese flying boat, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944

F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Stinky' at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944	F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-113 over Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 1944

German crew unloading bombs for Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers from a truck, Russia, summer 1944	German pilot Erich Rudorffer writing in the field in Russia, summer 1944; note Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber in background

Grumman TBF Avenger firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at a United States test range, mid-1944.	Lockheed P-38 Lightning at a training base in the United States, mid-1944. Note wing mounted HVAR air-to-surface rockets.

Looking aft from the signal bridge of USS Lexington (Essex-class) with 40mm Bofors mount and two 5-inch/38 mounts as F6F Hellcat approaches for a landing, Jun 1944	Marmite cans with blood collected from rear echelon troops in England, United Kingdom were being transferred from Dodge WC54 Ambulance to waiting Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman for air transport to Normandy

P-47 Thunderbolts of the 19th Fighter Squadron share the airfield with Marine Corps TBM Avengers Isely Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands, mid 1944. Note incomplete Japanese hangar.	Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-28672 ‘Lois’ of the 513th Fighter Squadron armed with bombs and HVAR air-to-surface rockets, probably at Tour-en-Bessin Airfield, France, mid-1944.

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt 44-88335 armed with HVAR air-to-surface rockets at the Wright Field Test Center, Dayton, Ohio, United States, mid-1944.	SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers returning to USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10), early Jul 1944

Spitfire PR Mark XI reconnaissance aircraft of No. 541 Squadron RAF based at Benson, Oxfordshire, England, UK in flight, Jul 1944; note split-pair camera ports under fuselage	US Army 315th Troop Carrier Group Walter 'Pappy' Winans and Pat McMarrow standing next to British Horsa glider at RAF Spanhoe, England, United Kingdom, Jun-Sep 1944

US Marines inspecting destroyed Japanese H8K flying boat, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944	USAAF Maj Thomas McGuire and Aviator Charles Lindbergh after returning from a combat mission, at Biak Island off New Guinea, Jul 1944. Note P-38 Lightning. Lindbergh helped with economical flight techniques to extend the range of P-38s.

USAAF photographer Jack Heyn posing before an A-20 aircraft, Hollandia, 1944	USAAF pilots Thomas McGuire and Charles Lindbergh after returning from a combat mission, at Biak Island, Dutch East Indies, circa Jul 1944; note P-38 Lightning aircraft, possibly McGuire's, in background