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US Army personnel unloading photographic equipment from a B-29 Superfortress reconnaissance aircraft, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945	US Army personnel with C-47 aircraft, Italy, 1945	US Army photo technicians servicing a F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Lucky Lu', Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 1 of 2	US Army photo technicians servicing a F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft 'Lucky Lu', Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 2 of 2

US Army soldier standing next to a C-47 Skytrain wreck, near Bastogne, Belgium, circa early 1945	US B-25 bombers above the Japanese Toyohara Airfield, Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan, 1945	US Coast Guard PBM Mariner aircraft taking off from the water, circa late 1940s	US Marine Corps SB2C Helldiver aircraft in flight exercises over US Territory of Hawaii, 1944-1945

US Marine F4U Corsair fighter kicking up the dust on its way to the runway at Majuro, Marshall Islands, 1944-45.	US Navy Construction Battalion (Seabee) man waving to a formation of three B-29 Superfortress bombers, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944-1945	US Navy or Marines PBJ Mitchell bombers fitted with Mark XIII torpedoes with break-away glide wings to extend aerial range, 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	US Navy or Marines PBJ Mitchell bombers fitted with Mark XIII torpedoes with break-away glide wings to extend aerial range, 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer on patrol. This aircraft design was based on the B-24 Liberator but no super-charged engines and a tail design taken from the B-23 Dragon. The waist blisters seem to be inspired by the PBY Catalina. Date and location unknown.	US Navy PV-2 Harpoon aircraft in flight, circa 1945	US Navy squadron VF-66 commanding officer Lieutenant Commander John Gray posing with a FR-1 Fireball fighter, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945	US personnel examine a Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu reconnaissance plane abandoned at Salzburg, Austria, 1945

US pilot Lt Robert G Young, Jr of the 374th Fighter Squadron on his P-51D Mustang at Little Walden in Essex, England, early 1945	US test pilot assesses the German ME 262 jet fighter over Ohio, late 1945. This aircraft fell into Allied hands when the German pilot defected and landed the plane at a US held airfield in Germany.	USAAF bomber crews at a briefing in England, United Kingdom, 1944-1945; note drawing of Me 163 Komet jet fighter on the map	USAAF engineer clearing out a captured airstrip, somewhere in Europe, circa 1945; note P-38 Lightning aircraft flying overhead with landing gear down