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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.	African-American US Army WAAC Captain Charity Adams drilling her company at the first WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, United States, May 1943	African-American US Marines in dress uniform, circa May 1943	Almost 40 C-47 Skytrain aircraft at a training airstrip in Texas, United States, 1943.

Australian airman inspecting wrecks of Ju 87D (foreground) and Ju 52 (background) aircraft, El Aouina airfield at Tunis, Tunisia, circa May 1943	Axis prisoners of war are herded out of the city as Allied armies enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943	B-17E Fortress on an RAF airfield in Tunisia. Note irregular camouflage paint scheme and 417 Sq. RCAF Spitfire at left. This was the bomber given to Montgomery by Eisenhower. Photo taken shortly after 17 Apr 1943.	B-24 Liberator bomber and crew of US 7th Air Force at Funafuti, Ellice Islands, circa May 1943

B-24D Liberator bomber 'Daisy May' of 373rd Bomb Squadron of USAAF 308th Bombardment Group in flight over eastern China, Feb-Jun 1943	B-25C Mitchell bomber in flight, Feb-Jun 1943	Basilone, recipient of the Medal of Honor, May 1943	BR.20 Cicogna bomber in flight, May 1943

Burning building at the northern side of the Warsaw Ghetto, probably near the intersection of present day Franciszkanska and Bonifraterska streets, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943	Burning residential building at the intersection of Zamenhofa and Wolynska Streets in Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943	Burning residential building at the intersection of Zamenhofa and Wolynska Streets in Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943	C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing CG-4A glider off an Algerian airstrip, Feb-Jun 1943