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PT-131 between PT-152 and PT-130, all Eclo 80-foot Motor Torpedo Boats of MTBRon-7, alongside tender USS Wachapreague in Liloan Bay, Philippines preparing to patrol the Surigao Strait, 24 Oct 1944.	Two PTRS-41 anti-tank rifles in action in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, late Oct 1944; note Russian soldiers nearby with PPSh-41 submachine guns

San Jacinto's VT-51 Avenger aircraft being armed with a Mark XIII torpedo for Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 Oct 1944	German soldier with Panzerschreck weapon, near Metz, France, 27 Oct 1944

A member of the 131st Field Artillery Battalion loading a 105mm shell packed with D-ration chocolate bars for an infantry battalion cut off in the Belmont Sector, France, 29 Oct 1944	Mugford escorted carriers Belleau Wood and Franklin, both damaged by special attack aircraft, off Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944; note Mugford's midships 20mm gun crews

African-American troops of the US 92nd Infantry Division shelling Germans with their mortar rounds near Massa, Italy, circa Nov 1944	German paratroopers with Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and MP 40 submachine guns, Bretagne, France, Nov 1944; note destroyed US Sherman M4A3 tank

German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfaust recoilless launchers and Panzerschreck rocket launcher in East Prussia, Germany, Nov 1944	Hungarian civilians and a German SS soldier in Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944; note Panzerfaust

Hungarian troops with a 7.5cm Pak 40 antitank gun, suburb of Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944	Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck

Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a round of mortar, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, circa late 1944	PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter.

TBM-1C Avengers, SB2C Helldivers, and F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 20 are spotted on the forward flight deck of the Fleet Carrier USS Enterprise, Aug-Nov 1944. Note 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns.	Machine gunners of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, firing the Vickers machine gun in support of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers between Meijel and Liessel, Netherlands, 1 Nov 1944.

QF 3.7 inch mountain howitzer of 158th Field Artillery Regiment, UK 36th Infantry Division, south of Mawlu, Burma, 3 Nov 1944	US Army anti-tank infantry searching for the position of a German machine gun that had fired on their vehicle, the Netherlands, 4 Nov 1944

A Bren gunner of the United Kingdom 8th Royal Scots at Moostdijk, Netherlands, 6 Nov 1944	African-American soldiers of Battery A, 4520th Anti-Aircraft stood by and checked their equipment while the convoy took a break, 9 Nov 1944