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Japanese searchlight position with a dummy operator, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 29 Jun 1944	A Gooseberry line of block ships off the Normandy beaches, Ouistreham, France, Jun 1944; note sunken British ship Durban, sunken Dutch ship Sumatra, and two active DUKW craft

Finnish Army sergeants Kaarlo Niemelä (leading, with panzerfaust and KP/-31) and Heino Nikulassi (with panzerfaust and small arms on his back) during Battle of Tali-Ihantala, north of Viipuri, Karjala, Finland, 30 Jun 1944; note destroyed Russian T-34 tank in background	Major General J. Lawton Collins described to Lieutenant General Omar Bradley how Cherbourg was taken, circa late Jun or early Jul 1944

Map depicting the Salween Offensive, 11 May-30 Jun 1944	Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944

Unfinished German submarine pen at Cherbourg, France, 30 Jun 1944	USS New Mexico's 14-inch projectiles on starboard deck forward while being replenished at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands 30 Jun 1944 prior to the invasion of Guam

USS North Carolina off Saipan, Mariana Islands, mid- to late-Jun 1944	A French field full of German helmets after their original owners, captured by the Americans, marched them to a prisoner of war camp, Normandy, France, 1944

A TBF-1C Avenger over Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944 during an attack on the Japanese Ushi Point Airfield, later to become North Field.	African-American US Marines Staff Sergeant Timerlate Kirven and Corporal Samuel J. Love, Sr. having just been awarded Purple Heart medals, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944

An American officer and a French partisan with a Sten sub-machinegun crouched behind a car during a street fight in a French city, Jun 1944	Camouflaged German paratrooper with Panzerfaust, France, Jun-Jul 1944

Canadian tank crew directs traffic around a disabled M4 Sherman tank while they install a new tread on a narrow road in Normandy, France, 1944. Note CMP ambulance and another CMP truck cab at right.	Captured American M8 armored cars, northern France, summer 1944, photo 1 of 2

Captured American M8 armored cars, northern France, summer 1944, photo 2 of 2	Captured resistance fighters, France, Jul 1944

CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 of the American Red Cross exiting landing craft during the Normandy campaign, France, 1944	Cliffs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944