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Aerial view of a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. Visible are C-47 Skytrain tow planes with Waco CG-4A gliders. Photo 2 of 5	Aerial view of a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. Visible are C-47 Skytrain tow planes with Waco CG-4A gliders. Photo 3 of 5	Aerial view of a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. Visible are C-47 Skytrain tow planes with Waco CG-4A gliders. Photo 4 of 5	Aerial view of a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. Visible are C-47 Skytrain tow planes with Waco CG-4A gliders. Photo 5 of 5

Aerial view of CG-4A gliders landing in groups of three at a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. One C-47 Skytrain tow plane is visible in the upper left.	C-47 Skytrain practicing parachute supply drops at a training area in Texas, 1943.	C-47 Skytrain tow planes lined up on a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943.	Chinese Ambassador Song Ziwen and US President Franklin Roosevelt at the White House, Washington DC, United States, May 1943

Destroyers line the dock at Norfolk Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, May 1943. Visible are USS Edison, USS Schroeder, USS Spence, and USS Foote.	Field of radishes and mustard, Jerome War Relocation Center, Arkansas, United States, May 1943	Liberty-ships at CalShip’s fitting-out docks, May 1943, Los Angeles, California, United States. In the foreground is SS Ignace Paderewski, which only spent 12 days at these docks before being delivered into service.	One C-47 Skytrain tow plane on the taxiway at a glider training airstrip in Texas and one CG-4A glider on the ramp, 1943.

Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, circa 1943.	WASP cadets Leonora Anderson and Mildred Axton show off the oversized and ill-fitting jump suits provided to the WASP program, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, May 1943.	With trucks lined up along the airstrip, CG-4A gliders land in groups of three at a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943.	Commander Joseph Willingham reading his orders to assume command of submarine USS Bowfin at her commissioning, 1 May 1943, Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States.

Indianapolis at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, view of her after midships area from the starboard side, 1 May 1943	Indianapolis at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, view of her after starboard midships area, 1 May 1943	Indianapolis at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, view of her after superstructure and hull from the starboard side, heavy cruiser Minneapolis in background, 1 May 1943	Indianapolis at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, view of her after superstructure from the starboard side, 1 May 1943