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F4U-4 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-211 at rest at Qingdao, China, early 1948; seen in May 1948 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	F4U-4B Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-312 making a bad landing aboard a carrier, late 1940s

HVAR air-to-surface rockets mounted on a P-51D Mustang of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan at Hofu Airfield, 1948.	Lt Emil Zanutto with F4U-5 Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-224 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States, 1948; seen in Oct 1948 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

Pilots of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-251 posing with a Corsair fighter, 1948; seen in Aug 1948 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	US Navy PBM-5A Mariner aircraft, circa late 1940s

USN P-80B w SAM-N-2 Lark missiles, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, United States, 1948	Egyptian Spitfire fighter shot down during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War/Israeli War of Independence, near Tel Aviv, 15 May 1948

Northrop P-61B Black Widow night fighter with the 317th Fighter Squadron (All Weather) flies above the San Francisco fog over Sausalito, California, United States, Jun 23, 1948.	F4U-5 fighter of US Navy squadron VF-23 aboard USS Wright, Nov 1948

F4U-4 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-212 in flight over Wright Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States, 17 Dec 1948; seen in Feb 1949 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	N3N-3 aircraft of US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine at rest, Portland, Oregon, United States, 23 Dec 1948

A B-29A Superfortress at rest at Naval Air Station St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1949.	Captured Japanese Navy Type 0 Transport (Showa L2D) with Chinese markings at an airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 1949

Close-up of the manned wingtip pods on Lockheed-Vega B-17G Fortress bomber 44-85784 being tested at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio in 1949.	DH.89 Dragon Rapide aircraft of Weston Ltd., Liverpool (Speke) Airport, England, United Kingdom, 1949

F-15A-1 Reporter resting at an airfield, circa late 1940s	F4U-4 Corsair fighter in the midst of a failed carrier landing attempt on USS Sicily, 1949; seen in Nov 1978 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

F4U-4 Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-225 aboard USS Cabot, circa late 1940s	F4U-5N Corsair nightfighter in flight, late 1940s; seen in Nov 1949 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News