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TBM-1C Avenger in flight, 1944-45, location unknown.	TBM-1C Avengers with Torpedo Squadron 87 on a training flight from NAS Oceana, Virginia, Sep-Nov, 1944.

US Navy Captain Harold Martin greeting VAdm John McCain, Sr. after a trap landing aboard light carrier San Jacinto, late 1944; seen on page 113 of US Navy War Photographs	US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber flying over the Pacific, 1944-45.

WAVES and Women Marines mechanics marching, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, circa 1944-1945; note PBM-3D, OS2U, and TBM aircraft	B-17G bomber at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom after being damaged on bombing mission over Cologne, Germany, 5 Oct 1944

Damaged aircraft on the hangar deck of the USS Independence, 6 Oct 1944 following heavy seas 3 days earlier. Note the hand-tied rope lashings to secure the aircraft. Note also the AIA radar antenna in the damaged radome	San Jacinto rolling heavily and pitching in rough seas while en route to attack Okinawa, 6 Oct 1944; note parked TBM Avenger aircraft of VT-51 on the flight deck

F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Langley, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 10 Oct 1944	Ordinancemen load .50 caliber ammunition into the wing mounts of an F6F Hellcat while the wings are folded aboard the USS Enterprise southeast of Okinawa, 10 Oct 1944.

Strike photo taken from planes from USS Bunker Hill of an F6F Hellcat flying over a burning Japanese ship in Unten Harbor, Okinawa, Japan, 10 Oct 1944	TBM Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-20 just after landing aboard USS Enterprise off Okinawa, 10 Oct 1944.

USS Lexington (Essex-class) flight deck personnel spotting one F6F-5 Hellcat that has just landed as next one taxis forward and next one is about to land, all returning from raids on the Ryukyu Islands, 10 Oct 1944	Bernard Montgomery and King George VI in the Netherlands, 12 Oct 1944

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the 21st Army Group, and Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst welcoming King George VI of the United Kingdom upon the king’s arrival in Holland, 12 Oct 1944.	TBM Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-19 on the flight deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being readied for a strike against targets on Formosa (Taiwan), 12 Oct 1944.

An SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 flying over USS Hancock off Formosa (Taiwan), 13 Oct 1944	Crew of a PBY Catalina attached to Air-Sea Rescue work to get TSgt James E Latta & SSgt Willis B Morlan out of the Adriatic after they were forced to bail out from their B-24H Liberator following a raid on Vienna, Austria; Oct 13 1944.

Flight deck crews of USS Wasp preparing a plywood-shrouded Mark XIII torpedo for a TBM Avenger aircraft for strikes in Taiwan-Philippine area, 13 Oct 1944; note TBM-1C Avenger and F6F-5 Hellcat	Japanese B6N aircraft releasing a torpedo in waters between Taiwan and Philippine Islands, 14 Oct 1944; USS Alabama and a destroyer in background; photo taken from USS Essex