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Launching of submarine Spot, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 May 1944; note Mrs. Tisdale, RAdm E L Cochrane, Mrs. Gieselmann, RAdm M S Tisdale, Jean Gieselmann, Capt A O Gieselmann, Mrs. Klein, Capt G C Klein	Mrs. A. G. Gieselmann christening submarine Spot, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 May 1944

Mrs. Tisdale, RAdm E L Cochrane, Mrs. Gieselmann, RAdm M S Tisdale, Jean Gieselmann, Capt A O Gieselmann, Mrs. Klein, and Capt G C Klein at the launching of Spot, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 May 1944	Prime Minister John Curtin with airmen of No. 467 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 19 May 1944

Sponsor Mrs. A. A. Gieselmann and Maid of Honor Miss Jean Gieselmann at the launching of Spot, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 May 1944	Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery in southern England, United Kingdom, 19 May 1944. Churchill is in what was called a “siren suit.”

Aerial photo of the gun battery at Merville, Normandy, France after bombardment, circa May 1944; note the bombing failed to neutralize the battery before Normandy landings	Heavy cruiser USS Chester in San Francisco Bay, California off Hunters Point Naval Shipyard after receiving new paint scheme Measure 32 Design 9D, 20 May 1944. Note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft on midship catapults

Lieutenant Commander Richard O'Kane posing with 22 airmen rescued by USS Tang near Truk, Caroline Islands between 29 Apr and 1 May 1944; photo taken at Pearl Harbor in May 1944	Troops of 325th Glider Infantry of US 82nd Airborne Division in a Horsa glider, training or preparing for Normandy, France invasion, England, United Kingdom, May-Jun 1944

UK Royal Air Force Stirling bombers, acting as glider tugs, lining at the runway at Tarrant Rushton, England, United Kingdom, May-Jun 1944; note invasion strips	Fully laden United States Navy LSTs burning furiously while other ships flee in Pearl Harbor’s West Loch after massive chain-reaction explosions in what became known as the West Loch Disaster, 21 May 1944.

Bernard Montgomery and King George VI at Montgomery's headquarters in Britain, 22 May 1944	Commissioning ceremony of USS Trepang, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 May 1944; Commander Davenport at center

Commissioning party of USS Trepang, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 May 1944; Commander Roy Davenport seat at left of photograph	Men watched as firefighters battled flames on LST-480, 22 May 1944; the explosion took place on the previous day

Tugs and other craft tried to put out fires on LST-480 resulted from an explosion from the previous day, Pearl Harbor, 22 May 1944	US Coast Guard vessel Woodbine fighting a fire on the stern of a destroyed LST which exploded the previous day, West Loch, Pearl Harbor, 22 May 1944

USS Hancock in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 3A during sea trials on her transit from Boston, Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia, 22 May 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	USS Hancock in Dazzle paint scheme Measure 32, Design 3A during sea trials on her transit from Boston, Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia, 22 May 1944. Photo 2 of 2.