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| Battleship USS Missouri in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States during shakedown exercises, 1 Aug 1944. Note her fresh coat of paint in the Measure 32, Design 22D scheme. | British soldier with PIAT at Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, Basse-Normandie, France, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| Capt Andrew D Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron CO, and Lt. Clarence P. (Lucky) Lester on the Marsden Matting of Ramitelli Airstrip, Italy. Behind them is Maj Turner’s P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III.” 1 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2. | Demonstration of a captured German Panzerschreck weapon by an instructor of UK 59th Division, France, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| Ensign Darrell Bennett stood beside his FM-2 Wildcat 'Smokey's Lucky Witch', USS Gambier Bay, 1 Aug 1944 | Pilots of the “Tuskegee Airmen,” 332nd Fighter Group in front of P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III” flown by Capt Andrew Turner (2nd from right), at Ramitelli, Italy, 1 Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| Polish resistance fighters Lieutenant Stanislaw Jankowski (foreground), Witold Abrożewicz (next in line), Kazimierz M. Piechotka, Leon Putowski, and Wojciech Bernatowicz (last in line) moments before W-hour (1700 hours) which marked the start of the Warsaw Uprising, Kazimierza Wielkiego, Warsaw, Poland, 1 Aug 1944 | Three Swordfish aircraft, equipped with rockets, performing a training flight from St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station, United Kingdom, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| United States Navy Vice-Admirals Aubrey Fitch (left) and John McCain on the occasion of Fitch relieving McCain as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, Washington DC, United States, 1 Aug 1944. | Destroyer Escort USS Fiske broken in two and sinking in the North Atlantic after being torpedoed by German submarine U-804, 2 Aug 1944. |
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| Sub Chaser SC-1062 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Aug 1944. Note the stowed Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket rails on the foredeck. | Wounded Polish resistance fighter being evacuated from the Evangelical Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland, early Aug 1944 |
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| Mrs. M. S. Tisdale christening submarine Springer, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 3 Aug 1944 | Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 1 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade |
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| Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 2 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade | Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 3 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade |
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| Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 4 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade | Submarine Springer shortly after launching, off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 3 Aug 1944 |
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| B-24H Liberator “Big Dog’s?” of the 739th Bomb Squadron crash landed while returning from practice mission, Bari Airfield, Italy, Aug 4 1944. | B-26B Marauder of the 441st Bomb Squadron over Île du Levant, France south of St Tropez on raid to bomb gun installations, Aug 4 1944 |
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