A U.S. Army Air Forces fighter, likely a P-47 Thunderbolt marked with tail number 30, sits on the ramp at an airfield in the Ryukyu Islands while ground crewmen attend to servicing duties. Photographs like this one, drawn from a WWII veteran's personal album, document the everyday labor of keeping combat aircraft flight-ready during the final months of the Pacific War in 1945. Project: 218239