27,448 items in this album on 1,373 pages.
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| Live ammunition amphibious training in England, United Kingdom in preparation for Operation Overlord, 1944 | LST-77 off-loading M4 Sherman tanks at Anzio, Italy, May 1944; note the small barge capsized in the background and LCVP on the LST's davits |
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| Mess hall and barracks under construction, Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States, May 1944 | Monte Cassino monastery in ruins, Italy, 1944 |
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| P-38J Lightning assigned to Howard Fotheringham of the 80th Fighter Squadron on the pad at Nadzab Airstrip near Lae, New Guinea, May 1944 | P-39Q Airacobra “Tarawa Boom Deay” at the Haleiwa Airstrip, Oahu, Hawaii, 1944 |
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| Polish Generals Nikodem Sulik (left) and Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (right) in Italy, circa May 1944 | Polish troops carrying ammunition to the front lines, near Cassino, Italy, May 1944 |
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| Polish troops enjoying a performance of the song 'Red flowers at Monte Cassino', Italy, May 1944 | Portrait of Commodore Leslie Gehres sitting at his desk as commander of Fleet Air Wing Four, Adak, Alaska, mid-1944. |
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| Prime Minister John Curtin and Captain Hugh Edwards before Lancaster bomber 'G for George' at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944 | Prime Minister John Curtin exiting from Lancaster bomber 'G for George', RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944 |
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| PT-204, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15 (MTBRon 15) in Bastia harbor, Corsica, France, May 1944. | PT-211, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15 (MTBRon 15) in Bastia harbor, Corsica, France, May 1944. Note the raised rocket launcher rails on the foredeck. |
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| SBD-5 Dauntless making a belly landing on USS Yorktown (Essex-class) after a combat strike, Sep 1943 - May 1944 | Starboard bow view of USS Ticonderoga at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, Untied States, May 1944. |
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| Stateside portrait of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, circa 1944. | Taiho at Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, May 1944 |
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| Tanks of 1st Armored Division near Lanuvio, Italy, circa May 1944 | TBF-1 Avengers with Composite Squadron 55 flying over the Atlantic from escort carrier USS Block Island, Apr-May 1944 |
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