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F6F-5 Hellcat fighters lining up for take-off from USS Yorktown (Essex-class), early 1945	F6F-5N Hellcats of Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-541 lined up at Falalop Airstrip, Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, May 1945. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft, especially pin-up girls.	FG-1D Corsair fighter in flight over Okinawa, mid-1945; seen in Mar 1953 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	FG-1D Corsairs from Marine Air Wing 4 at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 2, 1945. Note the PB4Y-2 Privateer with the enormously tall tail, the B-29 Superfortress, and Mt Suribachi.

FM-2 Wildcat fighter after a barrier crash aboard USS Sable, Great Lakes, United States, May 1945	Fw 190 A-8 at rest at an airfield after being captured by American forces, May 1945	Ground crew checking the radio of a P-40 Warhawk fighter at a US 14th Air Force Base in China, May 1945; note Chinese Air Force roundel	Groundcrew of No. 514 Squadron of Lancaster bombers at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England loading food parcels into an airplane’s bomb bay for dropping on the Netherlands during Operation Manna, May 1945.

Il-2 Shturmovik aircraft in flight over Berlin, Germany, Apr-May 1945	Ki-100 fighter of Japanese Army 5th Sentai at rest, Japan, mid-1945	Ki-100 I-Otsu fighter of Japanese Army 111th Sentai at rest, Japan, 1945	Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft at rest, circa 1940s

MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft I-13, captured by Americans at Yontan airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2	MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft I-13, captured by Americans at Yontan airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2	PBJ-1H Mitchell of Marine Squadron VMB-613 on the flight line on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, May 1945. Note radome on starboard wingtip.	PFC Elroy Karl, PFC Joe Levy, Sgt Herbert Curtis, and Cpl Leland Wheeler working on a Hellcat fighter of US Marine Air Group 31, Yontan Airfield, Okinanwa, Japan, May 1945

Republic P-47 at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico as part of Operation White, the transfer of combat aircraft from Europe to the Pacific, 1945.	SB2C Helldivers flying over USS Essex during the Okinawa campaign, May 1945; USS Bunker Hill, USS Langley, and other vessels in background	SB2C-4E Helldivers with Bombing Squadron 87 flying from USS Ticonderoga, May 1945	Soviet Il-2 aircraft in flight over Berlin, Germany, 1945