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P-51D Mustang “Bad Angel” of the 4th Fighter Squadron assigned to Capt Louis Curdes, Feb 1945. Note the interesting scoreboard. See Comment.	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-81 coming over the fantail of USS Wasp (Essex-class) for a landing, early 1945. Note leading edge wing spoilers, trailing edge flaps, and tailhook all extended.	SB2C-4 Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-9 returning to the USS Lexington (Essex-class) after a strike in support of the US Marines on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Feb 1945.	Series of five photos showing a G4M2E Model 24 Tei bomber releasing a MXY7 Ohka manned special attack rocket during testing, circa 1945

TBM Avengers and SB2C Helldivers flying from the carrier Bunker Hill, western Pacific, Feb 1945	US Navy aviators Ensign William C. Orr and Aviation Radioman 3rd Class Thomas D. Everett of cruiser Louisville posed by their damaged SOC Seagull aircraft, Feb 1945	US Navy Seamen 1st Class A. D. Allison and J. W. Roberts reading a letter on Belleau Wood's flight deck next to a F6F Hellcat fighter, circa 1945	USS Essex forward flight deck spotted with F4U Corsairs and F6F Hellcats as they steam toward Japan, Feb 1945.

Thirteen SB2C Helldiver dive-bomber from Bombing Squadron VB-3 from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) flying to strike Iwo Jima, 22 Feb 1945.	B-24J Liberator “Vera L” and other aircraft from the 27th Bomb Squadron drop 55-gallon drums filled with gasoline on Iwo Jima to burn off the plant growth in advance of the landings to come two weeks later, Feb 1 1945.	DFS 230 glider, carrying supplies, having crashed into Attila út 35 or Attila út 37, Budapest, Hungary, 4 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 4	DFS 230 glider, carrying supplies, having crashed into Attila út 35 or Attila út 37, Budapest, Hungary, 4 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 4

DFS 230 glider, carrying supplies, having crashed into Attila út 35 or Attila út 37, Budapest, Hungary, 4 Feb 1945, photo 3 of 4	DFS 230 glider, carrying supplies, having crashed into Attila út 35 or Attila út 37, Budapest, Hungary, 4 Feb 1945, photo 4 of 4	F4U-1D Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-511 aboard USS Block Island, 5 Feb 1945	Essex-class carrier USS Bon Homme Richard cruising in the Gulf of Paria between Trinidad and Venezuela on her shakedown cruise, 7 Feb 1945. Note TBM Avenger on her deck and Coast Guard guard boat alongside

US Navy Beech SNB Expeditor (BuNo 39967) after nosing over on a snow covered runway at NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Feb 8, 1945.	Crash-landed Beaufighter TF Mk X aircraft of No. 144 Squadron at RAF Dallachy, Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom, 9 Feb 1945	C-47 Skytrain aircraft of US 101st Airborne Division dropping supplies to troops of US 4th Division, Bleialf, Germany, 13 Feb 1945	Marine F4U Corsair of VMF-123 aboard USS Bennington after crashing against the island, breaking in half, and catching fire, 14 Feb 1945 off Iwo Jima. Note burning fuel in the flight deck tie-down track.