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The splash close aboard the port side of USS Essex was caused by a Japanese D4Y Suisei dive bomber that crossed over the flight deck forward of the island before dropping into the sea, 19 Mar 1945	Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock loading 5-inch HVAR rockets onto the wings of F4U Corsairs before taking off for a strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Photo 1 of 2.

Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock loading 5-inch HVAR rockets onto the wings of F4U Corsairs before taking off for a strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Tailhook of an F4U Corsair from Fighting Squadron VBF-6 hooking an arresting cable aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Note aircraft tractor tug in the foreground.

British paratroopers operating an M22 Locust tank as they prepared to cross the Rhine as part of Operation Varsity, late Mar 1945; note Horsa troop glider	C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft releasing hundreds of paratroopers and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel region in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany during Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945

CG-4A gliders and C-47 Skytrain tow planes lined up on a French airfield in preparation for Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945.	CG-4A gliders on the ground after delivering troops near Wesel, Germany as part of Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945.

CG-4A gliders on the ground after delivering troops near Wesel, Germany during Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945. Note the crutches holding up the glider’s tail to allow unloading heavy equipment through the open nose.	CG-4A gliders on their way to deliver troops during Operation Varsity in western Germany, 24 Mar 1945.

USAAF Troop Carrier Command demonstrating loading a wounded man onto a CG-4A glider, Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, United States, 24 Mar 1945; note Dodge WC54 ambulance	Eastern Aircraft FM2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-93 on the flight deck of escort carrier USS Petrof Bay off Okinawa, 25 Mar 1945.

Freshly repaired and repainted USS Nashville on a full-power test run in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 25 Mar 1945. Note the signal flag indicating there is a harbor pilot on board.	P-51D Mustangs of the 531st Fighter Squadron lined up at South Field, Iwo Jima, Mar 25, 1945

USS Hornet in camouflage Measure 33 Design 3a off Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945; note various aircraft on the flight deck	A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945.

3 TBM-1C Avengers and 2 FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron 69 readying for take-off from escort carrier USS Mission Bay on an anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic, spring 1945.	45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945

45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945	A group of US Navy flight nurses walking away from a Douglas R5D Skymaster aircraft, Guam, Marianas, Apr 1945