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Aerial photo of the gun battery at Merville, Normandy, France after bombardment, circa May 1944; note the bombing failed to neutralize the battery before Normandy landings	Lieutenant Commander Richard O'Kane posing with 22 airmen rescued by USS Tang near Truk, Caroline Islands between 29 Apr and 1 May 1944; photo taken at Pearl Harbor in May 1944

Fully laden United States Navy LSTs burning furiously while other ships flee in Pearl Harbor’s West Loch after massive chain-reaction explosions in what became known as the West Loch Disaster, 21 May 1944.	Commissioning ceremony of USS Trepang, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 May 1944; Commander Davenport at center

Commissioning party of USS Trepang, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 May 1944; Commander Roy Davenport seat at left of photograph	Tugs and other craft tried to put out fires on LST-480 resulted from an explosion from the previous day, Pearl Harbor, 22 May 1944

US Coast Guard vessel Woodbine fighting a fire on the stern of a destroyed LST which exploded the previous day, West Loch, Pearl Harbor, 22 May 1944	LST-480 burning in West Loch, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 May 1944 two days after the West Loch explosion that sank six LSTs. The chain-reaction explosion started on LST-39 whose wreckage is visible off LST-480’s bow.

USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944.	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944.

USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944.	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944.

Newly commissioned USS Ticonderoga moves down the Elizabeth River from the Norfolk Navy Yard to the deperming crib, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, May 30 1944; note camouflage Measure 33 Design 10A	Starboard quarter view of USS Ticonderoga on the Elizabeth River, Portsmouth, Virginia, Untied States, May 30, 1944.

USS Ticonderoga at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 30 May 1944; note camouflage Measure 33 Design 10A	USS Ticonderoga being pushed by tugboats at Naval Air Station Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, 30 May 1944

A P-47D Thunderbolt of the 318th Fighter Group is loaded into an Escort Carrier hangar bay by way of the aircraft elevator, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 1944. The Fighter Group was on its way to Saipan, Marianas.	Aerial view of Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii with Kaneohe Bay seen beyond the airstrip, Jun 1944.

Chinese mortar regiment going through entrance to Ramgarh Training Center, India, Jun 1944; note US instructor at the head of column	Close-up view of T30 rocket launchers mounted under the wing of an A-20 Havoc aircraft of 90th Attack Squadron, US 3rd Attack Group, Hollandia, New Guinea, mid-1944