11,184 items in this album on 560 pages.
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| F4U-1 Corsair fighter of No. 16 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force being serviced at Green Island (now Nissan Island), 21 Dec 1944 | Officers and men of No. 3 Servicing Unit Headquarters of Royal New Zealand Air Force posing with a F4U-1 Corsair fighter, Green Island (now Nissan Island), 21 Dec 1944 |
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| Burmese civilian with men and mules of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Kachin, Burma, late Dec 1944 | Lieutenant Pat Murphy, Lieutenant Dickinson, and Sergeant Galewicz of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) resting, Kachin, northern Burma, late Dec 1944 |
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| Flight deck crew chief giving taxiing instructions to a just-landed TBM-1C Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 81 aboard USS Wasp, 23 Dec 1944; the aircraft had just returned from searching for Typhoon Cobra survivors | USS Wasp launching aircraft to search for survivors following Typhoon Cobra, 23 Dec 1944 |
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| Bomb bay view of Martin B-26 Marauder bombers of the 323rd and 394th Bomb Groups drop 122 tons of bombs in an effort to take down the railroad bridge across the Moselle river at Trier, Germany, 24 Dec 1944. | Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe's Christmas letter to the US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, Belgium in which he recreated the German surrender demand and his response to it |
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| Newly promoted Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz hosting a collection of Third Fleet flag officers aboard battleship USS New Jersey in Ulithi Lagoon, Caroline Islands, Christmas Eve, 1944. | Christmas holiday greeting card from the officers of USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 1 of 3 |
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| Christmas holiday greeting card from the officers of USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 2 of 3 | Christmas holiday greeting card from the officers of USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 3 of 3 |
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| Program of the Christmas holiday celebration aboard USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 1 of 3 | Program of the Christmas holiday celebration aboard USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 2 of 3 |
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| Program of the Christmas holiday celebration aboard USS New Jersey, Dec 1944, page 3 of 3 | Soldiers of the 463rd Combat Engineers in France near the German border pause to observe Christmas the best way they could, 25 Dec 1944. Note K-ration cans as ornaments and three stacked M1 Garand rifles. |
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| US Army Sgt. Edward F. Good feeding a fellow wounded soldier, Pfc. Lloyd Deming, a turkey leg during the Christmas dinner, 2nd Field Hospital, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 25 Dec 1944 | American ambulance waiting outside a bombed building in Bastogne, Belgium while a searcher looked for persons injured during the ten-day defense by US 101st Airborne Division, 26 Dec 1944 |
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| Downed Japanese special attack aircraft burning in the water, between Leyte and Mindoro in the Philippine Islands, 25-31 Dec 1944 | Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and members of his staff stop on a Belgian road for a break, 27 Dec 1944. Note picnic set in trunk (boot) and the shadow of photographer Sgt John Morris. |
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