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Japanese heavy cruiser Maya on a training run off Tawi-Tawi, Philippine Islands, May 1944	Laffey underway, circa mid-1944

Lancaster BII “Fanny Ferkin II” s/n DS842 of No. 514 Squadron landing at RAF Deenethorpe, base of the USAAF 401st Bomb Group, for a lecture tour of American bases, May 1944	Live ammunition amphibious training in England, United Kingdom in preparation for Operation Overlord, 1944

LST-77 off-loading M4 Sherman tanks at Anzio, Italy, May 1944; note the small barge capsized in the background and LCVP on the LST's davits	Map of the Allied Operation Diadem plan for the Anzio, Italy area, May 1944

Mess hall and barracks under construction, Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States, May 1944	Monte Cassino monastery in ruins, Italy, 1944

P-38J Lightning assigned to Howard Fotheringham of the 80th Fighter Squadron on the pad at Nadzab Airstrip near Lae, New Guinea, May 1944	P-39Q Airacobra “Tarawa Boom Deay” at the Haleiwa Airstrip, Oahu, Hawaii, 1944

Polish Generals Nikodem Sulik (left) and Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (right) in Italy, circa May 1944	Polish troops carrying ammunition to the front lines, near Cassino, Italy, May 1944

Polish troops enjoying a performance of the song 'Red flowers at Monte Cassino', Italy, May 1944	Portrait of Commodore Leslie Gehres sitting at his desk as commander of Fleet Air Wing Four, Adak, Alaska, mid-1944.

Prime Minister John Curtin and Captain Hugh Edwards before Lancaster bomber 'G for George' at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944	Prime Minister John Curtin exiting from Lancaster bomber 'G for George', RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944

PT-204, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15 (MTBRon 15) in Bastia harbor, Corsica, France, May 1944.	PT-211, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15 (MTBRon 15) in Bastia harbor, Corsica, France, May 1944. Note the raised rocket launcher rails on the foredeck.

SBD-5 Dauntless making a belly landing on USS Yorktown (Essex-class) after a combat strike, Sep 1943 - May 1944	Starboard bow view of USS Ticonderoga at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, Untied States, May 1944.