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| General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 3 of 4 | General Henry Wilson and Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944, photo 4 of 4 |
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| Lieutenant General Oliver Leese at his field headquarters near Mignano Monte Lungo, Italy, 30 Apr 1944 | Avengers warming on on Enterprise's flight deck, May 1944 |
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| B-24D Liberator Lead Assembly Ship 'Green Dragon' of 389th Bomber Group, US 566th Bomber Squadron, RAF Hethel, Norfolk, England, Feb-Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2 | British landing ship Prince Baudouin launched three LCA landing craft, filled with American troops, during amphibious exercises in a British port, circa May-Jun 1944 |
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| P-38J Lightning assigned to Howard Fotheringham of the 80th Fighter Squadron on the pad at Nadzab Airstrip near Lae, New Guinea, May 1944 | Starboard bow view of USS Ticonderoga at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, Untied States, May 1944. |
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| Stock Certificate for the Jocko Jima Development Company created by the pilots of the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944, due to Jocko Clark’s obsessive interest in attacking the “Jima” islands (the Bonins). | United States Army troops of the 88th Infantry Division, 351st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Battalion in the streets of a heavily damaged Italian village, Central Italy, May 1944. |
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| US 101st Airborne Division paratrooper Corporal Louis E. Laird boarded a C-47 transport during dress rehersals for the Normandy invasion, spring 1944 | US forces rehearsing for the Normandy landings at Slapton Sands, Devon, England, UK, Apr-May 1944. Note the M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank at left. |
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| US landing ships at Weymouth, Dorset ready to board troops for the Normandy Invasion, May-June 1944. Photo 1 of 3. | US Navy personnel Evalyne Olsen, Anna Welch, Harold Howey, and Jackie Welch on a boat while on leave, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, circa 1944 |
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| US Navy personnel Harold Howey, Evalyne Olsen, Anna Welsh, and Jackie Welsh at a public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, circa 1944 | US Army soldiers boarding landing craft at Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, while preparing for the Normandy operation, 1 May 1944; note barrage balloons aloft and on the ground |
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| A FM-2 Wildcat fighter prepared to launch from USS Charger while another flew overhead, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States, 8 May 1944 | Members of the British Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at an RAF glider station repair and pack colored parachutes for use by airborne troops during the Normandy invasion, 31 May 1944. |
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| WAAF personnel repairing and packing parachutes at an RAF glider station, Britain, 31 May 1944 | A mobile crane lifted a crate in an English port, during the preparation for the Normandy invasion, circa late May or early Jun 1944 |
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