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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.

TBM-1C Avengers, SB2C Helldivers, and F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 20 are spotted on the forward flight deck of the Fleet Carrier USS Enterprise, Aug-Nov 1944. Note 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns.	US 15th Air Force African-American pilot Captain Wendell Pruitt leaving his ring with his crew chief Staff Sergeant Samuel Jacobs before leaving on a mission in his P-51 Mustang fighter, Nov 1944

USS General William Mitchell (AP-114) embarking units of the US 1st Marine Division for returning to the US, Pavuvu, Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, Nov 1944	USS Intrepid as seen through the 5-inch/38 gun sight of another Essex-class carrier, Nov 1944

USS Shangri-La underway, Nov 1945; note Camouflage Measure 33, Design 10A; seen in US Navy USS Shangri-La 1944-1946 cruise book	WAVES Seaman 2nd Class Mary Swamberger and Seaman 2nd Class Dorothy Gasperi rolling a snowball at the Yeoman Training School, Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, 1944

Young Germans volunteering for military service, Germany, Nov 1944	Cruiser USS Houston moored alongside repair ship USS Hector in Ulithi Lagoon, Caroline Islands, 1 Nov 1944. Houston was getting repairs after two torpedo hits on 14 and 16 Oct 1944 off Formosa (Taiwan).

Machine gunners of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, firing the Vickers machine gun in support of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers between Meijel and Liessel, Netherlands, 1 Nov 1944.	United States Navy diagram of the damage inflicted upon Fletcher-class destroyer USS Abner Read following a special attack by a Japanese airplane in Leyte Gulf, Philippines on 1 Nov 1944 that sank the ship.

US Army anti-tank infantry searching for the position of a German machine gun that had fired on their vehicle, the Netherlands, 4 Nov 1944	A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 1 of 3.

A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 2 of 3.	A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 3 of 3.

A Mitsubishi A6M Zero special attack aircraft diving on the carrier Lexington (Essex-class) off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. This plane struck the carrier directly outboard of the secondary conn causing moderate damage	American troops surrounded by German troops receiving D-ration chocolate bars and halazone water-purification tablets inside 105mm shells fired from howitzers, Belmont sector, France, 5 Nov 1944

Carrier Ticonderoga at sea off the Philippine Islands, 5 Nov 1944; note camouflag pattern Measure 33 Design 10a	Commander Air Group 80, Lt Commander Albert O. Vorse, discussing the results of the 6 Nov 1944 raid on Manila with Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford, right, aboard the USS Ticonderoga.