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| F4U Corsair ‘Luscious Lil-Nan’ of Marine Squadron VMA-21 at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas with ground crews taking advantage of a slow moment, 1944. | F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-114 set for take-off from Peleliu, late 1944. Note C-46 Commando. |
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| FM-2 Wildcat in flight, 1943-45. The FM-2 variant is easily recognizable by the slightly taller tail. | Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York City, New York, United States, Nov 1944 |
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| General Paul Mueller welcoming Admiral William Halsey to Angaur, Palau Islands, Nov 1944 | German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 after belly-landing at the American Orconte Airfield in France, Nov 1944. This plane was flown by USAAF Lt Bruce Carr who made his escape by stealing it from a German airfield in Czechoslovakia. |
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| German paratroopers with Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and MP 40 submachine guns, Bretagne, France, Nov 1944; note destroyed US Sherman M4A3 tank | German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfaust recoilless launchers and Panzerschreck rocket launcher in East Prussia, Germany, Nov 1944 |
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| Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York, New York, United States, Nov 1944 | Hungarian civilians and a German SS soldier in Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944; note Panzerfaust |
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| Hungarian troops with a 7.5cm Pak 40 antitank gun, suburb of Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944 | Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck |
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| Japanese-American of Company F, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing on guard, France, Nov 1944 | Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a round of mortar, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, circa late 1944 |
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| Lieutenant May, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey, and Lieutenant Commander William Mailliard at Hollandia, New Guinea, Nov 1944 | Line of F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMA-21 at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas, 1944. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft but (obviously) not unheard of. |
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| Major David G. Bellemere with the 455th Bomb Group standing in front of B-24H Liberator 'TePee Time Gal' wearing typical protective clothing, San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy, 1944-45 | Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (center) with other soldiers in the field, 1944, location uncertain. |
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| Medical staff and their WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-17 bombers, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1944-45. Note the flare shot from the B-17 indicating wounded personnel on board | Men built sandbag piers at a Leyte beach while two US Coast Guard-manned LSTs opened their cargo bay doors, circa late 1944 |
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