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The first formal raising the American flag over Peleliu, Palau Islands, 27 Sep 1944; note Japanese observation tower	B-17G Fortress “Lost Angel” Belly landed at RAF Kimbolton after being damaged over Magdeburg, Germany, 28 Sep 1944. Note that the crew had unbolted and dropped the ball turret to keep it from breaking the airframe’s back

Chiang Kaishek's sons Chiang Wei-kuo (second from left) and Chiang Ching-kuo (first from right) with other Chinese Army officers at Beibei, Chongqing, China, 28 Sep 1944	High-level naval conference in San Francisco, California, United States, 29 Sep 1944. L to R: Admiral Raymond Spruance, Admiral Ernest King, Rear Admiral Charles Cooke, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch.

A Mosquito bomber in flight over Britain, 30 Sep 1944	British Army photographers Sergeant Dennis M. Smith, Sergeant G. Walker, and Sergeant C. M. Lewis at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, late Sep 1944

US Marines on Peleliu, Palau Islands, Sep 1944	US Marines waiting in their foxholes as others blast a Japanese held cave in the nearby hill, Peleliu, Palau Islands, late Sep or early Oct 1944

USS Spearfish off Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California near the end of her overhaul period, 30 Sep 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	USS Spearfish off Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California near the end of her overhaul period, 30 Sep 1944. Photo 2 of 2.

10-year-old Chinese soldier at Myitkyina airfield, Burma awaiting a transport aircraft to take his unit back to China, mid-1944 (photo production date 5 Dec 1944)	13 Liberty Ships deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach shielding the ships in shore.

19-year-old pilot Lt Edwin Wright, already with over 80 missions flown, examining flak damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt on a raid to Münster, Austria, Oct 1944. Wright returned safely to his base in Italy.	A truck of the US Army 'Red Ball Express' fell into a ditch at the side of a road; GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transports lined the road as a GMC AFKWX tractor struggled to free itself, France, 1944

African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944	An aircraft maintenance crewman with the 497th Bomb Group at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands securing a propeller for a B-29 Superfortress to a service trailer, late 1944. Note B-29 “Lucky Lynn” beyond.

An SB2C Helldiver making its final landing approach on the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) operating in the Pacific, 1944	B-24H Liberator bomber 'Lil' Cookie', Lead Assembly Ship of 489th Bomber Group, US 845th Bomber Squadron, RAF Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Apr-Nov 1944

B-24J bomber, the brightly painted lead assembly ship of the 389th Bomber Group, US 567th Bomber Squadron, RAF Hethel, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-Nov 1944	British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, , the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, at his desk at the Admiralty in London, England, United Kingdom, Oct 1944