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479 items in this album on 24 pages.


Main deck blueprint for the Haskell-class attack transport	Schematic diagram of the Mark 24 FIDO acoustic homing torpedo, circa 1944.

Technical drawing of GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 open cab long wheel base transport without winch, 1943 or later	Unit Commendation letter for US Navy Cruiser Division 12 for performance in Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, 2 Nov 1943

Japanese Navy Type 89 12.7cm anti-aircraft guns documentation, from a Janapese Navy Yokosuka Gunnery School training manual dated Jan 1944	Letter from Albert Einstein to the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance describing the forces experienced by a torpedo’s firing pin mechanism upon impact with a solid object, 4 Jan 1944, page 1 of 2.

Letter from Albert Einstein to the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance describing the forces experienced by a torpedo’s firing pin mechanism upon impact with a solid object, 4 Jan 1944, page 2 of 2.	WW2-era recognition drawing of SOC Seagull floatplane by Air Intelligence Group, US Navy Technical Air Intelligence Section, 16 Feb 1944

US Navy War Damage Report drawing for USS Helena, 1 Mar 1944	United States Army diagram of the German Model 24 Stielhandgranate “Potato Masher” hand grenade dated 7 Mar 1944.

American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, map 1 of 2	American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, map 2 of 2

American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, page 1 of 5	American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, page 2 of 5

American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, page 3 of 5	American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, page 4 of 5

American Red Cross pamphlet 'Guide to Calcutta', May 1944, page 5 of 5	Stock Certificate for the Jocko Jima Development Company created by the pilots of the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944, due to Jocko Clark’s obsessive interest in attacking the “Jima” islands (the Bonins).

Engraved invitation to the commissioning of the USS Ticonderoga, 8 May 1944. This invitation was issued to Lt. C. Clifton Francom, a pilot with Torpedo Squadron 80.	Presidential Unit Citation issued to the officers and crew of submarine USS Tinosa for their work on Tinosa’s fourth, fifth, and sixth war patrols.