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US officer training Chinese troops in close-combat, 1940s	US officers observing a Chinese offensive, 1940s

US soldier, Chinese soldier, and Chinese guerrilla fighters displaying captured Japanese flags, Browning machine guns, and MP 34 submachine gun, China, 1940s	USAAF armorer 1st Lieutenant H. A. Blood examining the 20mm cannon ammunition of P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Babe', date unknown

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping supplies for French resistance fighters, Vercors, France, 1944	USAAF Capt Don Gentile sits on the wing of his P-51B Mustang “Shangri-La” of the 336th Fighter Squadron at RAF Debden, Essex, England, UK; 1944-45. Photo 1 of 2.

USAAF Major Richard Bong in his P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Marge', Dobodura, New Guinea, circa 1944	USAAF Major Richard Bong with his P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Marge', date unknown; note Marge Bong Drucker's autograph

USAAF pilots Colonel MacDonald and Al Nelson in the Pacific Ocean with MacDonald's P-38J Lightning aircraft 'Putt Putt Maru', 1944	USS Alabama and escorting destroyers in the South Pacific, late 1943-1944

USS Ancon, date unknown	USS Columbia underway, late 1944; note Measure 31-32-33 Design 3d camouflage

USS Columbia, 1944	USS Copahee off Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, United States, 1944; note Camouflage Measure 32/12A and her cargo of F6F Hellcat, SB2C Helldiver, and TBM-3 Avenger aircraft

USS Copahee underway, 1940s	USS Coral Sea underway with F4F and TBF aircraft on board, 1943-1944

USS Coral Sea underway, 1943-1944	USS Corregidor ferrying trucks, jeeps, and aircraft, mid-1940s

USS Corregidor underway, 1940s	USS Doherty at Kiska, US Territory of Alaska, circa 1944