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A Jeep full of US 101st Airborne paratroopers at a Normandy check-point, Jun 1944. Note Horsa gliders in the background and a box of full M1 Garand ammunition clips in the immediate foreground behind the MP’s leg.	A mobile crane lifted a crate in an English port, during the preparation for the Normandy invasion, circa late May or early Jun 1944

A Roman Catholic chaplain performing mass on the deck of USS Iowa as they closed on the Mariana Islands, Jun 1944. Note the colors of the ship’s paint and the 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft mounts.	A US Army half-track antiaircraft machine gun vehicle backed into the well deck of a US Navy LCT in preparation for the Normandy invasion, late May or early Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2

A US Army half-track antiaircraft machine gun vehicle backed into the well deck of a US Navy LCT in preparation for the Normandy invasion, late May or early Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2	American and Soviet servicemen address bombs to Germany at Poltava Air Base, Ukraine as part of Operation Frantic, summer 1944.

American Jeeps being loaded onto LCTs while larger trucks and DUKWs were being loaded onto LSTs, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1944	American troops carrying supplies inland from Anzio, Italy, May-Jun 1944

B-26 Marauder departing from a bomb strike on Auderville, France, Jun-Jul, 1944	British and Indian troops in the Imphal-Kohima area, India, Mar-Jul 1944

British landing craft, US Army troops, and US Coast Guard LCI(L)s staged at Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom prior to the Normandy invasion, June 1944.	Cisterna, Italy in ruins, May-Jun 1944

Crew of B-17F Fortress #42-30117 with the 95th Bomb Group posing in front of their airplane at Poltava, Ukraine during an Operation Frantic shuttle mission, summer 1944. The aircraft name translates to Polar Star.	Destroyed commissioner's bungalow and tennis court, Kohima, India, Mar-Jul 1944

Dwight Eisenhower's message to Allied servicemen prior to the invasion of France, Jun 1944	Early production Willys Jeep heavily field modified into a litter Jeep carrying wounded soldiers and medics on Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun 1944.

Ernie Pyle with troops of US 191st Tank Battalion, Anzio, Italy 1944	General Joseph Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944.

German Tiger I heavy tank at Villers-Bocage, France, Jun 1944	German troops withdrawing from Rome, Italy by horse-drawn carts, Jun 1944