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German coastal artillery the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, France, probably autumn of 1944; note concrete casemate still under construction	German Karl-Gerät self-propelled howitzer 'Ziu' bombarding Polish positions in Warsaw from Sowinski Park at the edge of the city, Poland, 18 Aug-21 Sep 1944, photo 1 of 2

German Karl-Gerät self-propelled howitzer 'Ziu' bombarding Polish positions in Warsaw from Sowinski Park at the edge of the city, Poland, 18 Aug-21 Sep 1944, photo 2 of 2	German officer prisoners being led back after talk with Allied officers near Brest, France, Sep 1944

German SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth (left, with papers) and commanding officer of 5th Regiment (Kuban Cossack Infantry) Jakub Bondarenko (next to Reinefarth) near Wolska Street during the Warsaw Uprising, Poland, Sep 1944	LST-1 (right) and LST-292 high and dry on the beach at Saint-Michel-en-Greves in the Brittany region of France, Sep 1944

Major Alfons Kotowski (standing on gun), Adolf Pilch (right of photograph, with mustache), Lech Zabierek (next to Pilch, back facing camera), and others of Polish resistance Kampinos Regiment with a captured German 2 cm FlaK 38 gun during the Warsaw Uprising, Poland, Sep 1944	Map depicting Allied advances in the southwestern Pacific Ocean area, 30 Jul-22 Sep 1944

Map showing the Allied advance toward and through the Gothic Line, Italy, 5 Jun-31 Dec 1944	Octagon Conferece, Sep 1944; sitting: Marshall, Leahy, Roosevelt, Churchill, Brooke, Dill; standing: Hollis, Ismay, King, Portal, Arnold, Cunningham

Polish resistance fighters Aleksander Wolski, Olsza, Jan Dabroski, and Stefan Iwanowski inspecting a captured German R75 'Sahara' motorcycle, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1944	Polish resistance fighters near the PAST building in Warsaw, Poland, Aug-Oct 1944

Soviet guns firing at night, Leningrad, Russia, Sep 1944	Three Karl-Gerät self-propelled howitzers preparing to fire at Warsaw, Poland, Aug-Sep 1944; note converted Panzer IV ammunition carrier

US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks unloading supplies from US Navy LSTs in Marseille, France, Sep 1944	US Army soldiers fighting in the streets of Brest, France during the mop up operations, Sep 1944

US Army trucks of the 'Red Ball Express' moving through a regulating point, possibly France, circa mid-1944	US Marine Corps Sergeant William Swisher operating a motion picture camera in the field on Guam, 1944

US Marine giving an interned child candy, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1944	US Marines moving supplies ashore across the beachhead on Peleliu, Palau Islands, late Sep 1944. What appears to be water in the lower left is actually the wing of the photo plane.