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Posed photo of a WASP pilot in flight gear and leather flying jacket showing WASP “Fifinella” patch, 1944, location unknown but probably Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States.	PT Boat PT-564 being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 1944. Note the Mark XIII aerial torpedoes on the deck. The smaller, lighter, faster PT-564 design was not put into production.

SB2C Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-2 flying from USS Hornet above Saipan, early 1944.	Scraggy Hill/Ito Hill after fierce fighting, near Imphal, India, Apr 1944

SdKfz 165 self-propelled gun in Romania, Mar-Apr 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

The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward.	Troops of the Soviet 62nd Stalingrad Army marching in Odessa, Ukraine, Apr 1944; note two female soldiers in foreground

Two F6F-5N Hellcat of Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-541 escorting a TBM-1C Avenger near Palau, 1944.	Two No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire aircraft and ground crew at Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, circa Apr 1944

Underside view of an Eastern Aviation TBM-3 Avenger armed with FFAR rockets, the predecessor of the HVAR air-to-surface rockets, early 1944.	United States Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz, 1944, location unknown.

Universal Carrier and crew of UK 2nd Sherwood Foresters regiment, Anzio, Italy, Apr 1944; note 2-inch mortar	US Navy F6F-3 Hellcats and USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers of the 41st Bomb Group share the Mullinix airstrip on Tarawa Island, Gilbert Islands, Jan-Apr 1944.

USAAF Major Richard Bong in his P-38 Lightning aircraft 'Marge', Apr 1944	USAAF pilot James M. Dalby in front of a C-47 Skytrain aircraft belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Apr 1944

USS Shamrock Bay in measure 33 design 10A camouflage at Astoria, Oregon, United States, Apr 1944	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.