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P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Glengary Guy' of Glenn Martin Webb of the US 20th Fighter Group at RAF Kings Cliffe, England, United Kingdom, Jan-May 1944	P-40N Warhawk fighters of the 74th Fighter Squadron (direct descendent of the AVG Flying Tigers) in China, probably Kweilin (now Guilin) 1943-44. Note rocket tubes being mounted under the wing.	TBM-1C Avenger aircraft with stateside markings flying with US Navy Torpedo Squadron 80 (VT80) in training over the Atlantic coast, circa spring 1944	Two damaged Japanese F1M2 biplanes on the beach at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, Mar 1944; note RNZAF Flight Lieutenant J. Beattie in foreground

US Navy maintenance crews with Bombing Squadron VB-106 clean engine parts under an airplane wing during a downpour at Momote Airstrip, Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, Mar 1944. Note Jeep and Army SB-24D Liberator.	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Harry the Horse', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Jo Jo', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Slugsy Sachs', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944

USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Spanish John', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer George Tackaberry and another man with a wrecked Japanese Ki-43 fighter, Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	View of Me 323 Gigant wing, spring 1944; note gun positions	Essex-class Aircraft carrier USS Hornet gliding into Berth F-9 on the northwest corner of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Mar 1944. Note SB2C Helldivers on the flight deck and Measure 33, Design 3a paint.

B-25 Mitchell bombers of the 13th Air Force over the Japanese forward base at Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 5 Mar 1944	WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mates working on a SNJ training aircraft, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States, 5 Mar 1944	B-17G Fortress 'Silver Dollar' of the 384th Bomb Group over Berlin with its tail section knocked off from bombs falling from a higher bomber group, 9 Mar 1944. 8 were killed and 2 were taken prisoner.	Boomerang fighter 'Sinbad II' of No. 5 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force in flight over Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, 15 Mar 1944; pilot was Lieutenant A. W. B. Clare

WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-24 Liberator bombers of the 453rd Bomb Group at Old Buckenham in England, United Kingdom, Mar 16, 1944	B-25 Mitchell bombers of 321st Bomber Group, US 447th Bomber Squadron flying past Mount Vesuvius, Italy during its eruption of 18-23 Mar 1944	B-17 bomber of US 447th Bomb Group in flight toward Frankfurt, Germany, 20 Mar 1944	Crew member examining a layer of ashes on a B-25 of the 340th Bomb Group at Pompeii Field, Italy. Ash came from an eruption of Mt Vesuvius on 23 Mar 1944 that rained hot ash and brimstone on the area damaging several aircraft. Photo 2 of 2.