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| USS Iowa in camouflage Measure 32, mid-1944 | USS Pogy underway off Hunters Point near San Francisco, California, United States, Jun 1944 |
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| USS Tang at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, date unknown | Workmen inspecting the hull damage to USS Nashville in Jun 1944 after a bomb near-miss in the Bismarck Sea on 4 Jun 1944. Photo probably taken at Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island. Note the shrapnel splatter pattern. |
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| Zuikaku and two destroyers at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Jun 1944 | A Rhino barge docked with LST-347 in Portland Harbor, Dorset, England, United Kingdom during preparations for the Normandy invasion, 1 Jun 1944. |
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| US LSTs 284, 380, 382, and 499 loading men, vehicles, and supplies for the upcoming Normandy Invasion in Brixham Harbor, Devon, England, Jun 1 1944. Note wings and fuselage of an Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper observation aircraft on a CCKW truck. | LST-357 at a port in southern England being loaded with DUKWs in preparation for the D-Day Normandy invasion, early June 1944. |
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| USS E. A. Poe entering USS ABSD-1 at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 3 Jun 1944 | A salvage party from USS Guadalcanal on the captured German submarine U-505, 4 Jun 1944 in the eastern Atlantic. Note the twin 20mm anti-aircraft guns and the seashell insignia on the tower. |
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| Abandoned by her crew but with engines still running, German Type IXC submarine U-505 circles at 7 knots before US boarding parties complete the capture off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944. | Abandoned by her crew but with engines still running, German U-505 circles at 7 knots as US boarding parties complete the capture and escort USS Chatelain stands by off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944. |
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| After being abandoned by her crew, an American boarding party comes alongside the damaged German U-505 off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944. Destroyer Escort USS Chatelain circles the capture. | Boarding party from USS Pillsbury working to secure a tow line to U-505’s bow in the western Atlantic, 4 Jun 1944. Note the large United States flag flying from the submarine’s periscope. |
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| Boarding party working on the captured U-505’s bow in the western Atlantic as the carrier USS Guadalcanal approaches to take the submarine in tow, 4 Jun 1944. | Destroyer Escort USS Pillsbury alongside the captured U-505 off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944 |
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| USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. |
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| USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. Note LCVP |
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