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USS Steamer Bay in Apr 1944, location uncertain. Note the single catapult on the flight deck’s port side.	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) Landing Signal Officer Lt Richard C Tripp giving the “cut” signal to the pilot of a landing F6F Hellcat fighter, Pacific Ocean, 1944.

USS Yorktown (Essex-class) Landing Signal Officer Lt Richard C Tripp watching the landing of an F6F Hellcat fighter, Pacific Ocean, 1944.	VC2-S-AP3 ships Lincoln Victory, Panama Victory, Joplin Victory, and Columbia Victory on the ways at CalShip yards, Los Angeles, California, United States, spring 1944.

WAVES trainee leaning on a mop while cleaning her barracks at a Naval Training Center in the United States, circa early 1944	Battleship USS Texas in the Atlantic steaming from Casco Bay, Maine to New York, New York to assume duties in escorting convoys across the Atlantic, 1 Apr 1944.

Grayson in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1 Apr 1944	Léon Degrelle speaking to troops at Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, 1 Apr 1944; note Josef Dietrich in background

Submarine USS Harder backing away from the reef off Woleai, Caroline Islands, 1 Apr 1944; note SOC Seagull seaplane off Harder’s starboard quarter and rescued aviator Ensign John Galvin in a raft off the bow.	Submarine USS Harder with her bow against the reef off Woleai, Caroline Islands, 1 Apr 1944 as a rescue party went ashore to rescue aviator Ensign John Galvin on the beach. Note SOC Seagull seaplane.

Three Soviet soldiers taking a break from fighting while a fourth stood guard, Byelorussia, 1 Apr 1944	USS Harder rescuing aviator Ensign John Galvin off Woleai, Caroline Islands, 1 Apr 1944; note SOC Seagull seaplane in background

Burial at sea services aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class) following action around Palau, 2 Apr 1944.	Submarines Blenny (background) and Cochino (foreground) under construction at the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, United States, early Apr 1944

B-24D Liberator “Angie the Ox” of the 515th Bomb Squadron over the smoking rail yards in Bucharest, Romania, Apr 4 1944	Sergeant John Cark and Staff Sergeant Ford Shaw of E Company, 25th Combat Team, US Army 93rd Division cleaning their rifles alongside the East West Trail, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 4 Apr 1944

USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz I main camp at Oświęcim, Poland taken 4 Apr 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978.	Major General Lucian Truscott and Lieutenant General Ira Eaker at Anzio, Italy, 6 Apr 1944

USS Shamrock Bay (bottom of photograph) with two other escort carriers, Astoria, Oregon, United States, 6 Apr 1944; photo taken by an aircraft from USS Shipley Bay	USS Shamrock Bay moored at Astoria, Oregon, United States, 6 Apr 1944; photo taken from aircraft of USS Shipley Bay