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Strike photo of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver from USS Hancock over burning Japanese merchant ships off French Indochina (Vietnam), 12 Jan 1945.	TBM-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 4 from USS Essex crossing the Indochinese coast (Vietnam) on their wat to bomb shipping in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), 12 Jan 1945.	Australian Boomerang fighter of No. 5 Squadron RAAF taxiing past RNZAF F4U-1 Corsair fighters, Cape Torokina, Bouganville, Solomon Islands, 15 Jan 1945	Helldiver aircraft over Hornet, South China Sea, mid-Jan 1945, photo 1 of 2

Helldiver aircraft over Hornet, South China Sea, mid-Jan 1945, photo 2 of 2	Lieutenant Fred Eberle of the USAAF 333rd Fighter Squadron nursing his damaged P-38 Lighting back to Saipan after receiving battle damage over Iwo Jima, 15 Jan 1945. Photo taken from an accompanying B-24 Liberator.	SB2C-3 Helldiver aircraft of VB-7 from USS Hancock in flight, South China Sea, mid-Jan 1945	Underside view of B-24L Liberator “Flying Ass” of the 451st Bomb Group just prior to bomb release over railroad yards in Vienna, Austria, 15 Jan 1945.

F4U-1 Corsair fighters of Royal New Zealand Air Force in flight near Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 17 Jan 1945	P-38L Lightning “THOITY-THOID-N’THOID” with both propellers stopped shortly before the pilot, Lt. Joseph DeVona, bailed out over the Pacific, 17 Jan 1945.	OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on the fantail of USS New Jersey or USS Wisconsin, off Taiwan, 18 Jan 1945; note 16-inch guns in foreground and USS Hornet in background	B-17 Flying Fortress bomber having crash landed on a snowy field, Europe, 20 Jan 1945

Four Beaufort bombers of No. 100 Squadron RAAF in flight near Wewak, New Guinea, 20 Jan 1945	Carrier Ticonderoga burning after being struck by special attack aircraft off Taiwan, 21 Jan 1945; note light cruiser Miami's starboard catapult and OS2U Kingfisher aircraft in foreground	F4U Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-124 on the flight deck of USS Essex, 25 Jan 1945.	USS Hornet (Essex-class), distance, steaming with USS Independence and USS Enterprise on their way back to Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands, 25 Jan 1945.

Vought F4U-1C Corsair armed with wing mounted HVAR air-to-surface rockets and belly mounted ‘Tiny Tim’ anti-shipping rockets at the Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, 31 Jan 1945.	A formation of B-29 bombers flying from Mariana Islands toward Japan, early 1945	After the recapture of Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, American intelligence officers examining a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M-2 bomber, Feb 1945	B-24D Liberator aircraft 'Wham Bam' lead assembly ship of the 453rd Bomber Group, US 735th Bomber Squadron based at Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Jan-Apr 1945, photo 2 of 3