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After missing the arresting wires, an FM-2 Wildcat made it almost the length of the flight deck before nosing over aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45.	Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Sholto Douglas of RAF Middle East, Jan 1943-Jan 1944

Airship hangar, Carlsen Field, Trinidad, 1940s	Alfred Jodl, circa 1940s

Alfred Jodl, date unknown	Allied Operation Jedburgh personnel receiving instructions from a briefing officer, London, England, United Kingdom, circa 1944; note M1 Carbine on table

Alpha Track Calutron at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 1944-1945	Alpha Track Calutron diffusion vacuum pumps at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 1944-1945

American A-20 Havoc aircraft aflame after being hit by German anti-aircraft fire, date unknown	American airmen with a P-40E Kittyhawk fighter, China, 1940s; photo taken by personnel of 7th Photographic Technical Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, USAAF

American and native personnel of the plumbing department of Halavo Seaplane Base, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, date unknown	American Beaufighter aircraft, 1943-1945

American Blood Chit prepared for Operation Gratitude, the Raid into the South China Sea, as planners expected American airmen would be flying over French-Indochina (Vietnam) and other regions of southeast Asia.	American greeting card, printed during war time, 1 of 2

American greeting card, printed during war time, 2 of 2	American ground crew preparing to arm P-51 Mustang fighter at an airfield with six M2 machine guns and 0.50 caliber ammunition, date unknown

American M4 Sherman tanks in Italy, 1944	American parachute fragmentation bomb descending onto a Japanese airfield, circa 1943-1945; note G4M aircraft on the ground

American pilot Margaret Ray in flying gear, date unknown	American servicemen learning the VW valve adjustment ritual on a captured Kübelwagen, 1944