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Mulberry harbor, off Normandie, France, 1944	Non-commissioned officers of Headquarters Company, 422nd Infantry Battalion, 106th Infantry Division at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, 1944. Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds is in the front row, second from left.

Obituary of Stefanica Paunescu, 1944	One of the 250 armored bulldozer variant of Cruiser Mk VII Centaur tank, date unknown; also one of the 'Hobart's Funnies'

P-47 Thunderbolts of the 19th Fighter Squadron share the airfield with Marine Corps TBM Avengers Isely Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands, mid 1944. Note incomplete Japanese hangar.	Panzer Grenadiers of German 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' lined up during an Iron Cross awarding ceremony, Jul 1944

Panzer IV Ausf. H medium tank of 29th Regiment of German 12th Panzer Division on the Eastern Front, Jul 1944	RAF and US Navy VCS-7 pilots briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beach heads, circa Jun-Jul 1944

Ram OP (Observation Post) tank in Normandy, France, mid-1944	Raupenschlepper Ost tractor towing a 5 cm PaK 38 gun through water, Russia, Jun-Jul 1944

Repairing Tiger I heavy tank no. 912 in Russia, summer 1944; note camouflaged crane	Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-28672 ‘Lois’ of the 513th Fighter Squadron armed with bombs and HVAR air-to-surface rockets, probably at Tour-en-Bessin Airfield, France, mid-1944.

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt 44-88335 armed with HVAR air-to-surface rockets at the Wright Field Test Center, Dayton, Ohio, United States, mid-1944.	Saint-Lô in ruins, France, Jun-Jul 1944

Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944	SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers returning to USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10), early Jul 1944

SdKfz 161/3 Möbelwagen and crew, northern France, summer 1944	Spent 75-mm howitzer shells piling up outside the besieged city Myitkyina, Burma, mid-1944; note M1 carriage

Spitfire PR Mark XI reconnaissance aircraft of No. 541 Squadron RAF based at Benson, Oxfordshire, England, UK in flight, Jul 1944; note split-pair camera ports under fuselage	Star shells in the sky and fires burning on the ground illuminated the city of Garapan at night, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944