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USS Franklin at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 4 May 1944 shortly after her port side was repainted from Measure 32 Design 6a to Design 3a. Her starboard side remained Design 6a.	British General Harold Alexander and US Major General Lucian Truscott, Italy, 5 May 1944

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell and Brigadier General Frank Merrill, Naubumy, Burma, 5 May 1944	PBJ-1 Mitchell bomber of Marine Squadron VMB-413 is hit in the port engine by anti-aircraft fire over Tobera, New Britain 5 May 1944. The aircraft crashed a short time later killing all 6 of the crew.

Shimakaze during her trials, Miyazu Bay, Japan, 5 May 1943	This B-17F Fortress, converted to an armed supply aircraft, had a wheel collapse during an emergency landing at Tadji Field, New Guinea and slid into the bomb dump, May 5, 1944

Loading stores on No. 5 sponson aboard USS Coral Sea, 6 May 1944	Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 1 of 4

Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 2 of 4	Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 3 of 4

Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 4 of 4	US Army Signal Corps photographer Private Arthur W. Hedgo with Chinese boy Lee Ting Yow, northern Burma, 6 May 1944

USS Marblehead off New York, New York, United States, 6 May 1944	Normandy beach defenses, France, 7 May 1944

A FM-2 Wildcat fighter prepared to launch from USS Charger while another flew overhead, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States, 8 May 1944	Engraved invitation to the commissioning of the USS Ticonderoga, 8 May 1944. This invitation was issued to Lt. C. Clifton Francom, a pilot with Torpedo Squadron 80.

Starboard side view of Essex-class carrier Ticonderoga being delivered to the US Navy on the morning of her commissioning, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Untied States, May 8, 1944.	USS Coral Sea underway, 8 May 1944, photo 1 of 3

USS Coral Sea underway, 8 May 1944, photo 2 of 3	USS Coral Sea underway, 8 May 1944, photo 3 of 3