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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	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	Four Essex-class carriers at anchor at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, about 1600 on 2 Dec 1944; L to R: Wasp, Yorktown, Hornet, Hancock; viewed from Ticonderoga with sight of her F6F-5 Hellcat fighters	K-class airship with Blimp Squadron ZP-14 on a stop-over in Oran, Algeria, 2 Dec 1944.

B-24J Liberators of the 494th Bomb Group receive maintenance on Angaur, Palau Islands, Dec 8 1944	The airstrip at Angaur, Palau Islands Dec 9 1944 with B-24Js of the 22nd Bomb Group on the near side and B-24s of the 494th Bomb Group on the far side; plus one C-47A Skytrain supply aircraft.	P-38J Lightning ‘Moonlight Cock-Tail!’ and pilot Lt Clark R ‘Doc’ Livingston of the 392nd Fighter Squadron at Juvincourt Airfield, Aisne, France, Dec 1944.	Wreckage of B-17 bomber 'Devil's Own' at RAF Debach, England, United Kingdom, 12 Dec 1944

A burning Yokosuka P1Y Ginga ‘Frances’ aircraft crossing astern of escort carrier USS Ommaney Bay in the Sulu Sea, Philippines, 15 Dec 1944. Moments later, the airplane crashed into the sea.	TBM Avenger heavily lashed to the deck of escort carrier USS Anzio as the ship rocks with Typhoon Cobra in the Philippine Sea, 17 Dec 1944.	USS Anzio rolling in heavy seas, Pacific Ocean, 17 Dec 1944; note Avenger aircraft in foreground and Wildcat aircraft in background; seen in Nov 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	F4U-1 Corsair fighter of No. 16 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force being serviced at Green Island (now Nissan Island), 21 Dec 1944