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Strike photo taken from planes flying from USS Essex of the attack on Surigao Harbor in northern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 9 Sep 1944	A German gun emplacement located near the town of Ste. Marie du Mont near Utah Beach, showing damage inflicted by Allied gunfire during the Normandy invasion; photo taken 10 Sep 1944

Map showing the plan of attack for US Army 80th Division on the city of Nancy, France, Sep 5-10, 1944.	Oliver P. Smith walking through his Assistant Division Commander quarters on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944

B-24J of the 38th Bomb Squadron “The Chambermaid” managed to return to Saipan after being heavily damaged over Iwo Jima 11 Sep 1944. All crewmembers survived but all received the Purple Heart.	German 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun and its crew fighting in the streets of Warsaw, Poland during the Warsaw Uprising, 11 Sep 1944; note heavily damaged buildings

German soldiers at Theater Square during the uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 11 Sep 1944; note National Theater in background	MGen Leonard Gerow presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to 1st Lt William J Kehaly of San Francisco, California on 11 Sep 1944 for Lt Kehaly’s actions on D-Day, 6 Jun 1944.

Earl of Athlone, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Mackenzie King, Octagon Conference, Citadelle de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 12 Sep 1944	Governor General of Canada and Earl of Athlone Alexander Cambridge, US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at the Quebec Conference, Canada, 12 Sep 1944

Chinese troops in Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China, 13 Sep 1944	82nd Airborne Division loading Jeeps into Waco CG-4A gliders about Sep 14, 1944 for Market Garden on Sep 17. The box in the left Jeep is a SCR-625-C mine detector and a paratrooper bicycle is in the right Jeep

C. G. Power, C. D. Howe, Winston Churchill, and Mackenzie King in Quebec, Canada, circa 14 Sep 1944	Map depicting the Allied campaign toward Germany, 26 Aug-14 Sep 1944

Resistance fighters in La Tresorerie near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, 14 Sep 1944	African-American US Marines resting during the campaign for Peleliu, Palau Islands, 15 Sep 1944

Amphibious tractor coming out of LST-225, delivering the first wave of landers on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 15 Sep 1944	Assault craft approaching Peleliu's beaches, 15 Sep 1944

Cruiser USS Honolulu firing her guns in a pre-invasion shore bombardment of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, 15 Sep 1944, D-Day on Peleliu.	Damaged muzzle brake of a German 88mm gun, located in one of Utah Beach's gun emplacements; photo taken on 15 Sep 1944