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TBM-1C Avengers, F6F Hellcats, and SB2C Helldivers of Navy Carrier Air Group 18 from USS Intrepid at Peleliu, Nov 27, 1944.	WASP pilot Ruth Dailey climbing into a P-38 Lightning aircraft, United States, 28 Nov 1944	Aerial view of Camp Landis from a L-5 liaison aircraft flown by Lieutenant Sittner of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Kachin, Burma, Dec 1944	An unidentified pilot, Sergeant Shigeo Iioka, Ensign Tetsuro Aoki, Sergeant Masami Sawamoto, Corporal Kenji Yamada, and Corporal Hisashi Tagami of a special attack unit of the Japanese 53rd Sentai with a Ki-45 aircraft, late 1944

Australian Group Captain Clive R. Caldwell of No. 80 (Fighter) Wing RAAF next to his Spitfire Mk VIII aircraft, Halmahera, Morotai Islands, Dutch East Indies, circa Dec 1944	B-24H Liberator bomber of 783rd Bomb Squadron, 465th Bomb Group, US 15th Air Force exploding in mid air after being hit by anti-aircraft fire over Germany, 1944	B-29 Superfortress taking off from Saipan, Dec 1944.	Chance-Vought F4U Corsair fighter powering up for takeoff from the USS Essex east of the Philippines, Dec 1944. Note the vapor streaks spinning off the propeller tips due to high humidity.

Crew of USS Makin Island attempted to pull an upended FM-2 Wildcat from the flight deck's edge, circa 1944-1945	Fantail of the carrier USS Hancock in the western Pacific, Dec 1944. Note SB2C Helldiver on the after flight deck and the aircraft’s horseshoe tail geometric identifying it as from Bombing Squadron 7 from the Hancock	FM-2 Wildcat landing on USS Makin Island, circa 1944-1945	FM-2 Wildcat of Composite Squadron VC-90 coming aboard the escort carrier USS Steamer Bay in the Pacific, circa 1944

Ki-45 aircraft of Japanese 53rd Sentai, late 1944	Lieutenant Sittner of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) taking off with a Piper L-4 Grasshopper liaison aircraft, Landis airfield, Kachin, Burma, Dec 1944	Lightning aircraft in flight, post-Apr 1944	Nose turret of a United States Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer at Camp Kearny (Miramar), San Diego, California, United States, Dec 1944.

P-38J Lightning ‘Moonlight Cock-Tail!’ of the 392nd Fighter Squadron at Juvincourt Airfield, Aisne, France, Dec 1944. Note ‘Carol’ painted on the engine cowl. This was the plane of Lt Clark R ‘Doc’ Livingston.	Sergeant Bev Cole, Lieutenant Sittner, Corporal Pierce of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) at Landis air strip with a Piper L-4 Grasshopper aircraft, Kachin, Burma, Dec 1944	TBM-1C Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 87 aboard carrier Randolph during Randolph’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Nov-Dec 1944.	P-38 Lightning aircraft at rest on an airstrip in Chico, California, United States, 1 Dec 1944