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TBM-1C Avengers of VT-2 with wheels and arrester hooks down above the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) after a strike on Guam, 18 Jul 1944. Note rocket rails and ASB radar antennas under the wings.	US Navy airship K-112 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 based in Morocco making an approach for a landing at RAF Gibraltar, Jul 18, 1944.	Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 Jul 1944.	Cruiser USS Pasadena in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 24D leaving Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States 21 Jul 1944. Photo from a blimp with Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-11. Photo 1 of 3.

Cruiser USS Pasadena in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 24D leaving Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States 21 Jul 1944. Photo from a blimp with Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-11. Photo 2 of 3.	Cruiser USS Pasadena in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 24D leaving Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States 21 Jul 1944. Photo from a blimp with Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-11. Photo 3 of 3.	Douglas A-20G Havoc 43-9432 “Bevo” of the 387th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group takes an anti-aircraft hit during an attack on Kokas, western New Guinea, 22 Jul 1944. Photo 1 of 4.	Douglas A-20G Havoc of the 387th Bomb Squadron crashing into the water after being shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on Kokas, western New Guinea, 22 Jul 1944. All crewmembers were killed. Photo 3 of 4.

Douglas A-20G Havoc of the 387th Bomb Squadron trailing smoke and losing altitude after being damaged by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on Kokas, western New Guinea, 22 Jul 1944. Photo 2 of 4.	Douglas A-20G Havoc “Bevo” of the 387th Bomb Squadron disintegrates in the water after being shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on Kokas, western New Guinea, 22 Jul 1944. Both crewmembers were killed. Photo 4 of 4.	B-17E formation aircraft of the 379th Bomber Group of the US 525th Bomber Squadron, RAF Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 24 Jul 1944	Broadside view of a Douglas BTD Destroyer during a test flight in the Chesapeake Bay area, United States, 25 Jul 1944.

Head on view of a Douglas BTD Destroyer showing some of its unusual shapes during a test flight in the Chesapeake Bay area, United States, 25 Jul 1944.	SB2C Helldivers flying from the carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) flying over Yap, Caroline Islands, July 25, 1944	Smoke rising from Colonia Harbor on Yap, Caroline Islands as a TBM Avenger from the carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) flies overhead, 25-28 July 1944	US Marines wading past wreckage of a D3A dive bomber, Agat beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944

Wreck of D3A Type 99 carrier dive bomber at Agat beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, possibly shot down by naval gunfire during or after the landings; photo taken on 28 Jul 1944	B-29 bomber attacking Japanese-controlled industrial targets in China, possibly Anshan Ironworks or Showa Steelworks in Liaoning Province, China, 29 Jul 1944	Wrecked C6N-1 aircraft of Japanese Navy 121st Kokutai in a hangar, Ushi Point Airfield, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 30 Jul 1944. Note the Marine Corps Curtiss R5C-1 Commando in the background.	A flight of P-51 Mustang aircraft, possibly over Europe, 6 Jun-9 Aug 1944