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F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-1 hangs by the barrier cables in the elevator well of Escort Carrier USS Barnes, Nov 1943	F6F-3 Hellcat, TBF-1 Avenger, and SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Saratoga in the Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	F6F-3 Hellcats preparing for launch from USS Saratoga for strikes against Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, mid Nov 1943.	German pilot Major Günther Rall being congratulated as he exited his Bf 109 fighter after scoring his 250th kill, Nov 1943

Lexington pilots celebrated a successful attack on the Marshall Islands, Nov 1943	LtCdr Edward Steichen with his camera on an island catwalk above the flight deck of the USS Lexington (Essex-class), Nov 1943, probably off Hawaii. Note F6F Hellcats on the flight deck.	PB2Y-3 Coronado sometime after Sep 1943, location unknown. Note the unusual Navy practice of painting the airplane’s Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (BuNo) on the tail similar to the Army practice.	PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron VP-63 at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, United Kingdom, late 1943. Note backward firing anti-submarine rockets, part of their new Magnetic Anomaly Detection warfare.

Prototype V3 of Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa late-1943	Sailors gathered on Cowpens' flight deck, Atlantic Ocean, Jul-Aug 1943; note red lines on side of the SBD Dauntless wing roundel, which was used only between 29 Jun 1943 and 14 Aug 1943	TBF Avenger running up its engines before launching from escort carrier USS Santee in the Atlantic, Nov 1943. Note the catapult bridle attached to the landing gear.	TBF Avengers on the ramp at Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii, shortly after the station opened, Nov 1943.

TBF-1 Avengers returning to USS Lexington (Essex-class) during the Gilberts campaign, Nov 1943.	TBM-1C Avengers over Makin Island (now Butaritari Island), in the Gilbert Islands following a bombing raid, Nov 1943.	US Army troops looking at a wrecked H8K flying boat, Makin, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943	US Navy sailor performing routine maintenance on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft of squadron VB-141 at Hato Field, Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, Nov 1943

USAAF P-38J Lightning aircraft in flight, late 1943	View of USS Saratoga's superstructure from a descended elevator, Nov 1943	WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mates Bernice Sanbury and Mary Arnold removing an access panel behind the engine of a SNJ training plane, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, Nov 1943	WAVES Control Tower Operator at work at Naval Air Station, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, United States, Nov 1943; note FM Wildcat and TBM Devastator aircraft in background