P-39Q Airacobra fighters from the 46th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group parked on Makin Island in the Gilberts in December 1943. (U.S. Army Air Force Photograph.)
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Aerial photograph of Hawkins Field on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands in March 1944 with a variety of aircraft visible. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless flies over the battleship USS Washington (BB-56) during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, November 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The remains of a wrecked Japanese Aichi D3A Val dive bomber in the Gilbert Islands, 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)