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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

Lancaster B Mark I bomber of No. 101 Squadron RAF (Warrant Officer R. B. Tibbs) dropping a 4,000-lb HC 'cookie' bomb and up to 108 30-lb 'J' incendiary bombs over Duisburg, Germany during Operation Hurricane, 14 Oct 1944	Lancaster B Mark I bomber of No. 101 Squadron RAF (Warrant Officer R. B. Tibbs) dropping up to 108 30-lb 'J' incendiary bombs over Duisburg, Germany during Operation Hurricane, 14 Oct 1944

B-25 bomber attacking shipping in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, possibly during the 16 Oct 1944 raid by US 14th Air Force	US 14th Air Force B-24 and B-25 bombers attacking Hong Kong harbor, 16 Oct 1944, photo 1 of 2

Damaged tail plane of an F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-20 on the hangar deck of USS Enterprise off the Philippines, 19 Oct 1944. Note the solid castor type tail wheel necessary for carrier operations.	FM-2 Wildcat flying combat air patrol over USS Santee, during the Leyte Invasion, 20 Oct 1944

Stern view of USS Astoria, off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 Oct 1944; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft	USS Astoria at Mare Island naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 Oct 1944; photo 1 of 4

USS Astoria at Mare Island naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 Oct 1944; photo 3 of 4	USS Astoria at Mare Island naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 Oct 1944; photo 4 of 4

USS Astoria off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 Oct 1944, photo 3 of 3; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on catapults	Photograph taken moments after a mid-air collision between two B-17 Fortress bombers over the airfield at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 22 Oct 1944.

Activity continues on the flight deck of USS Essex as a crashed Japanese airplane burns off the starboard bow, 24 Oct 1944 off Luzon in the Philippines. Note Number 1 5-inch/38 caliber gun mount at right.	Three bazooka tubes fitted on the wing struts of an USAAF L-4 Grasshopper artillery observation aircraft, France, 24 Oct 1944

USS Birmingham grinding up to damaged USS Princeton while the crew assisted with damage control efforts, Philippine Sea, 24 Oct 1944	USS Intrepid launching a SB2C Helldiver during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 Oct 1944.

Broken pieces of the engine from a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft that crashed through the flight deck of escort carrier USS Suwannee during the Battle off Samar, 25 Oct 1944.	Japanese special attack A6M5 Model 52 Zero fighter diving on USS White Plains, 25 Oct 1944