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After the leading edge of USS Hornet’s flight deck was collapsed in Typhoon Connie, F6F Hellcats were launched over the stern as the carrier steamed in reverse at 18.5 knots, 6 Jun 1945.	FG-1D Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-323 in flight over Okinawa, Japan, 10 Jun 1945

Captured MXY7 Ohka aircraft on display at Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii, 18 Jun 1945.	Casablanca-class Escort Carrier USS Shamrock Bay underway off Formosa (Taiwan), 24 Jun 1945. Note FM-2 Wildcat fighters on the flight deck.

P-61 Black Widow and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft at Kagman Airfield, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1945	Beaufighter aircraft of No. 31 Squadron RAAF landing at an airfield on Tarakan Island off Borneo, 28 Jun 1945

A crewman resting aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber, 1945	Air evacuation of wounded men from the Philippines on a mid-Pacific stop over, mid-1945. The wounded men are transferred from a PB2Y-3 Coronado to WC54 ambulances before boarding another plane bound for the US.

American B-29 bombers attacking Kure, Japan, late Jun or early Jul 1945	Armorers preparing propaganda leaflet canisters for loading onto a B-29 Superfortress bomber, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945

B-29 Superfortress bomber bombadier at work, 1945	B-29 Superfortress bomber crew members inside their aircraft, 1945

B-29 Superfortress bomber crew members inside their aircraft, 1945	B-29 Superfortress bomber crew members inside their aircraft, 1945

B-32 Dominator bomber of the 312th Bomber Group, US 386th Bomber Squadron at Clark Field, Manila, Philippine Islands, Jul 1945	Bat radar guided anti-shipping bomb on cables for hoisting to the under the wing mount on a US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-109, western Pacific, mid-1945.

Close-up view of J7W Shinden prototype aircraft's canopy, Japan, 1945	Close-up view of the under section of the J7W Shinden prototype aircraft, 1945

F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-422 at Ie Shima Airfield, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945. Note the nose art on both the plane and the belly tank.	Five PB2Y Coronado patrol planes of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-4 in flight, probably over southern California, Jul 1945.