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| Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York City, New York, United States, Nov 1944 | General Paul Mueller welcoming Admiral William Halsey to Angaur, Palau Islands, Nov 1944 |
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| German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 after belly-landing at the American Orconte Airfield in France, Nov 1944. This plane was flown by USAAF Lt Bruce Carr who made his escape by stealing it from a German airfield in Czechoslovakia. | Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York, New York, United States, Nov 1944 |
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| Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck | Japanese prisoner of war, Guam, Nov 1944 |
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| Japanese prisoners of war, Guam, Nov 1944 | Japanese-American of Company F, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing on guard, France, Nov 1944 |
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| Lieutenant May, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey, and Lieutenant Commander William Mailliard at Hollandia, New Guinea, Nov 1944 | Line of F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMA-21 at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas, 1944. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft but (obviously) not unheard of. |
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| Major David G. Bellemere with the 455th Bomb Group standing in front of B-24H Liberator 'TePee Time Gal' wearing typical protective clothing, San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy, 1944-45 | Medical staff and their WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-17 bombers, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1944-45. Note the flare shot from the B-17 indicating wounded personnel on board |
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| Men built sandbag piers at a Leyte beach while two US Coast Guard-manned LSTs opened their cargo bay doors, circa late 1944 | P-38L Lightning aircraft flying in formation during Lockheed test pilot Milo Burcham's funeral, southern California, United States, late 1944 |
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| Photo through the cloud cover taken from aircraft from Bombing Squadron VB-14 from the USS Wasp (Essex-class) showing the discovery of a Japanese warship underway, 1944 | PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter. |
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| Sailor of American battleship New Jersey lowering the breech block of one of the ship's 16-in guns in preparation of loading a shell, Nov 1944 | SB2C-4E Helldivers and TBM Avengers of Air Group 87 from the USS Randolph during the carrier’s shakedown cruise in the Trinidad area, Nov 1944. |
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| SBD-6 Dauntless scout bomber of Marine Squadron VMSB-231 in flight over the Pacific, 1944. Note the ASB Radar antenna under the wing and the mission markings indicating 85 bombing missions. | SBD-6 Dauntless scout bomber of Marine Squadron VMSB-231 in flight over the Pacific, 1944. Note the ASB Radar antenna under the wing. |
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