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TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45. | The damaged landing gear of an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-45. | This P-40K Warhawk was one of three P-40s that were heavily modified with supercharged Allison engines & bubble canopies into the experimental XP-40Q. Performance improved but still did not match the P-51, P47, or P-38 so they never went into production | Three FM-2 Wildcats flying over Lake Michigan, United States during carrier qualifications aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable, 1943-44. |
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Three Horsa gliders landing, pre-May 1944 | Two D4Y2 dive bombers prepared to take off, circa 1944 | Two TBM-1 Avengers sent to Britain under Lend Lease to become Tarpons of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. | Two US B-17G Fortress aircraft of the 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron in formation, Sep 1943-Oct 1944 |
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UC-45F Expeditor aircraft in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947 | United States Army Air Forces OA-10A Catalina aircraft in rescue training off Keesler Field , Mississippi, United States, 1944 | US airmen with a P-40N Warhawk fighter in China, 1943-1945 | US armored division troops letting an 8th Air Force officer try a German MP 40 machine pistol, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945; note Jeep vehicle, B-24H bomber, and M1 Garand rifle |
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US Army and Chinese nurses, China, 1944 | US B-17G Fortress aircraft 'Pistl Packin Mama' of the 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron based at RAF Bassingbourn, England, United Kingdom, 1944 | US Lt (jg) Alexander Vraciu of Fighting Squadron 6 in his F6F Hellcat 'Gadget' aboard USS Intrepid, 1944, photo 1 of 2; note markings for his first 9 kills | US Lt (jg) Alexander Vraciu of Fighting Squadron 6 in his F6F Hellcat 'Gadget' aboard USS Intrepid, 1944, photo 2 of 2; note markings for his first 9 kills |
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US Marine Corps F4U Corsair fighters taxiing for takeoff from Majuro Island, Marshall Islands, date unknown | US Marine Corps pilot 2nd Lieutenant John Zoellner, Jr. in the cockpit of a F4U-1 Corsair fighter, 1944 | US Navy blimp K-110 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-42 escorting a convoy of merchant ships along the Brazilian coast, 1943-45 | US Navy Corsair fighter in flight, Sep 1943-Jan 1947 |