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Sherman Crab flail tank under test with the UK 79th (Experimental) Armored Division Royal Engineers, 27 Apr 1944	Soldier maintaining the 29cm Petard spigot mortar on a Churchill AVRE of 79th Squad, 5th Assault Regt, Royal Engineers, UK 3rd Infantry Division, 29 Apr 1944; note 40-lb bomb on right

A Rhino barge loaded with men and equipment during exercises in southern England, United Kingdom, prior to the Normandy invasion, May 1944. Note the barge’s two large outboard motors and tethered barrage balloon.	Busy beachhead, Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 1944

Camouflaged Marder III Ausf. M tank destroyer in Italy, Apr-May 1944, photo 1 of 2	Camouflaged Marder III Ausf. M tank destroyer in Italy, Apr-May 1944, photo 2 of 2

Destroyed Elefant tank destroyer in Italy, Apr-May 1944	DUKWs lining up in a forest in preparation for Normandy invasion, England, United Kingdom, May 1944

DUKWs on the beach at Selsey, West Sussex, England prior to the Normandy invasion, May 1944. Note components of the artificial Mulberry Harbors in the background awaiting deployment.	Funeral procession of a Knight's Cross holder, Riga, Latvia, Apr-May 1944; note Marder II tank destroyer carrying flag-draped coffin

German PzKpfw III, IV, V, and VI heavy tanks in a field, Italy, Apr-May 1944	German Tiger I heavy tank and Hornisse/Nashorn tank destroyer in Italy, Apr-May 1944; note disabled American M4 Sherman medium tank between them

German troops posing with a Sturmgeschütz III vehicle, near Monte Cassino, Italy, Apr-May 1944	German Waffen-SS Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann on a Tiger I heavy tank, Northern France, May 1944, photo 1 of 2

German Waffen-SS Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann on a Tiger I heavy tank, Northern France, May 1944, photo 2 of 2	Good view of a Rhino barge as crews drill in English waters prior to the Normandy invasion, May 1944. Rhino barges were an assembly of 180 welded 5x7x5 foot steel boxes powered by 2 outboard motors of 143 hp each.

LST-77 off-loading M4 Sherman tanks at Anzio, Italy, May 1944; note the small barge capsized in the background and LCVP on the LST's davits	United States Army troops of the 88th Infantry Division, 351st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Battalion in the streets of a heavily damaged Italian village, Central Italy, May 1944.

US forces rehearsing for the Normandy landings at Slapton Sands, Devon, England, UK, Apr-May 1944. Note the M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank at left.	WC-54 ambulances at RAF Kimbolton, England waiting as returning B-17 Fortress bombers of the 379th Bomb Group fly overhead, May 13, 1944