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Kingfisher aircraft being recovered aboard USS New Jersey, date unknown	Landing Signal Officers aboard USS Wolverine in Lake Michigan, United States, 1942-1944; seen in 1 Jan 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	LCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Hunter Liggett (background) during amphibious training near San Diego, California, United States, circa 1944. Note the LCVP’s unusual raised coxswain podium at the stern	Leilani, a Good Luck pinup girl that hung in USS Tinosa’s wardroom and would receive a pat from crewmembers on their way to Battle Stations, circa 1944.

Liberty Ship SS Joseph M. Terrell at J. A. Jones, Brunswick, Georgia, United States, circa 1944	Light carrier Chitose, 1944	Light cruiser Isuzu immediately after modification in Tokyo Bay off Yokohama, Japan, 1944	Light cruiser Kaganovich, 1944

Louisville in a Pacific anchorage in 1944	LST unloading supplies, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1943-1944	Main deck blueprint for the Haskell-class attack transport	Martlet fighter warming up on the flight deck of HMS Formidable in the North Atlantic, 1944

Men of USS Burrfish, 1943-1945	Minquan, probably at Chongqing, China, 1940s	Navy Lt CV Timberlake, an LSO on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable sits in his SNJ Texan, Lake Michigan, United States, 1943-44.	Officers aboard USS Burrfish, 1943-1944

Officers aboard USS New Jersey, date unknown	Officers and men of USS Cabrilla, date unknown	On approach to the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, an SB2U Vindicator shows the LSO “Gear Down, Flaps Down, Hook Down,” 1943-44.	One SNJ Texan and 13 FM-2 Wildcats tied down on the flight deck of training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.