11,183 items in this album on 560 pages.
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Broadside view of destroyer USS Hoel in her Measure 21, Design 1D paint scheme, Oct 1944, possibly in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Admiralty Islands. | Broadside view of the port side of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) at anchor showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944, probably at Ulithi. |
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Canadian Chevrolet CMP Field Artillery Tractor pulling a QF 25-pounder howitzer with limber after landing in the South of France, Sep-Oct 1944. Note LST-551 among other LSTs. | Carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) in camouflage Measure MS-33/10a at Puget Sound, Washington, US, Oct 1944. |
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Close-up view of the turret of a Tiger II heavy tank, Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944 | Cruiser USS Honolulu underway with her Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme, Pacific Ocean, 1944 |
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Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver making a landing approach to the USS Ticonderoga as seen from the carrier’s fantail below the level of the flight deck during training operations in the Central Pacific, Oct 1944. | Escort carrier USS Steamer Bay launching two F6F Hellcat fighters as replacement aircraft for Task Force 38 aircraft carriers, fall of 1944 in the Philippine Sea. Note the radome on one of the Hellcats. |
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F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222 at Renard Field, Russell Islands, Solomons, 1944. Note the National Insignia on the tops of both wings over a year after that practice was discontinued. | F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-223 at Green Island (now Nissan Island), 1944. Note the R4D Skytrain with nose art, rare on Navy or Marine aircraft. |
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F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the Sundowners, preparing for take off from the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944. | F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the ‘Sundowners,’ following a very hard landing on the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944. |
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F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 11, the “Sundowners,” warm up on the deck of USS Hornet (Essex-class) in the Philippine Sea, late 1944 | George Patton speaking to Ordnance Sergeant Maurice Baker, Oct 1944 |
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Groundcrew members tending to B-17F Fortress "Berlin Sleeper II" of the 342nd Bomb Squadron at Polebrook Air Base, late 1944. Note small gas powered generator charging up the batteries. | Gunners of the 385th Bomb Group pose in front of B-17F Fortress "Mission Belle" and listen to a word from the Chaplain, James O. Kincannon (“Chaplain Jim”), at Great Ashfield Air Field, England, UK, late 1944. |
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Heinrich Himmler speaking to men freshly conscripted into the Volkssturm militia, East Prussia (Ostpreußen), Germany, Oct 1944; note Heinz Guderian and Hans-Heinrich Lammers | Japanese-American troops in a jeep in the Chambois Sector in France, circa Oct 1944; note anti-decapitation device on front bumper |
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Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team advancing in trucks, Chambois Sector, France, circa late 1944 | Late 1944 photograph of the wreckage left from the scuttling of the French fleet on 27 Nov 1942, Toulon Naval Dockyard, France. Wrecks of the Tartu, Cassard, L’Indomptable, Vautour, and Aigle can be seen. |
11,183 items in this album on 560 pages.