[rockyalexander]

I agree with Trooper; have seen countless video of planes landing (in the daytime) without lights, even when damaged. This includes Spits, Hurris, B-17s, Corsairs, Hellcats, Bf-109s, He-111s, p-47s, Zeros, FW-190s, and countless other types landing plenty far enough away from battlezones. While it's standard procedure to show landing lights on combat aircraft today (while landing day or night), there doesn't seem to be any indication that it was during WWII.
But I'm not griping; I don't necessarily have a problem with it, as the new AI defensive routines make such a thing very easy for me to overlook.