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PB2Y-3 Coronado aircraft of US Navy squadrons VP-13 and VP-102 in the submarine basin of Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 29 Jan 1944	A Model 187 Baltimore light bomber of Royal Air Force 223 Squadron flying from Celone, Italy drops bombs on the railway junction at Sulmona, a strategic point on the east-west route across Italy, in February of 1944	A sailor securing a K-class airship to a mooring mast at Moffett Field, San Jose, California, United States, Feb 1944.	African-American aircraft mechanics George Johnson and James C. Howard of the US Army 99th Fighter Squadron, Italy, Feb 1944

Armorers loading belts of .50 caliber ammunition into the four ammo trays in one wingtip of a P-47 thunderbolt, date and location unknown.	Avenger Mk II (TBF-1C) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force 30 Squadron at Turtle Bay airstrip, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, Feb 1944.	Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft taking a break from flying “The Hump” at Chabua Field, India, circa Feb 1944	F4U-1A Corsair flown by Lt(jg) Ira Kepford of Navy Squadron VF-17 at Ondonga Field, New Georgia, Solomons, 1944.

F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with Night Fighting Squadron VF(N)-101 lining up for an exercise flight aboard USS Intrepid as the ship sailed south from Hawaii toward the Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with Night Fighting Squadron VF(N)-101 lining up for an exercise flight aboard USS Intrepid as the ship sailed south from Hawaii toward the Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	Flight Lieutenant L H Abbott, British Air Ministry official photographer, holding a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera in front of a Douglas Dakota aircraft, 1943-44.	Four Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns mounted in staggered positions in the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt, date and location unknown.

Instrument panel of an Eastern Aircraft TBM-3(N) Avenger, 1944	Marine TBM-1 Avengers taxi for take of at Piva Field, Bougainville, Solomons, 1944	P-38G Lightning aircraft of 55th Fighter Group, 338th Fighter Squadron based at RAF Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Jan-Apr 1944	Tuskegee airmen of the US Army Air Force 332nd Fighter Group discussed a recently completed mission, Italy, Feb 1944

US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator bomber on an airfield at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944; note Corsair fighter in background	US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft used by the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Moffett Field, California, United States, early 1944	WAAF armourer belting up ammunition for a Lancaster bomber, RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, Feb 1944	TBM-1C Avenger aircraft of US Navy Torpedo Squadron 80 (VT80), Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, circa 2 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2