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Chariot manned torpedo with crew, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 3 of 3	Chariot manned torpedo, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944

Commander of Chariot manned torpedo wearing Sladen suit and oxygen apparatus, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 1 of 2	Commander of Chariot manned torpedo wearing Sladen suit and oxygen apparatus, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 2 of 2

General Bernard Montgomery addressing Polish Armored and Parachute troops in Lanark, Scotland, United Kingdom 13 Mar 1944 during his tour of D-Day invasion forces in Britain.	WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-24 Liberator bombers of the 453rd Bomb Group at Old Buckenham in England, United Kingdom, Mar 16, 1944

B-24J bomber 'Old Sack' and crew, of USAAF 493rd Bombardment Group, at RAF Debach, England, United Kingdom, spring 1944	SSgt Norman A Sampson from the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group in the ball turret of a B-17 Fortress; RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, Apr 1944

Battle damaged B-17G Fortress “Bertie Lee” after belly landing at RAF Waltham (Grimsby), Lincolnshire, England following a mission to Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), 11 Apr 1944. See comment below for details.	Brigadier General Jesse Auton, General Dwight Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, Major General James Doolittle, Major General William E. Kepner, Colonel Donald M. Blakeslee, RAF Debden, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 11 Apr 1944. VIPs were present for the presentation of Blakeslee with the Distinguished Service Cross

Actress Vivian Leigh speaks to the 381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell, Hallstead, UK during the christening ceremonies for B-17G “Stage Door Canteen,” 21 Apr 1944. Also present were actors Alfred Lunt and Laurence Olivier.	Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, holding up a bottle of Coca-Cola just before she cracked it over the machine gun barrels of the B-17G “Stage Door Canteen” as a christening, 21 Apr 1944 at Ridgewell.

Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, speaks to the 381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell, Hallstead, UK during the christening ceremonies for B-17G “Stage Door Canteen,” 21 Apr 1944.	Welbike motorcycle being assembled in the field during an exercise in the United Kingdom, 22 Apr 1944

Amphibious invasion training in England, United Kingdom in preparation for Operation Overlord, 25 Apr 1944	US troops conducting landing exercises at Slapton Sands, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom, 25 Apr 1944

Civilian workers pose with sections of an Airspeed Horsa glider, as received from the manufacturers, before assembly at No. 6 Maintenance Unit, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 26 Apr 1944.	Amphibious invasion training in England, United Kingdom in preparation for Operation Overlord, 1944

C-47 Skytrains and Horsa gliders from the 438th Troop Carrier Group lined up at Greenham Common, Newbury, Berkshire, England, prior to the D-Day invasion of France.	DUKWs on the beach at Selsey, West Sussex, England prior to the Normandy invasion, May 1944. Note components of the artificial Mulberry Harbors in the background awaiting deployment.