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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

Wrecked Nagatsuki on the beach at Kolombangara, Solomon Islands, 8 May 1944; she was beached on 5 Jul 1943 during the Battle of Kula Gulf; photographed from cruiser USS Montpelier	Crew bails out of damaged B-17F Fortress “Patches” at 22,500 feet over Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 10 May 1944. 8 of the crew became POWs and the other 2 were killed. Note 2 right engines feathered

USS Marblehead underway, 10 May 1944	4.2-inch mortar and crew of S Troop, 307th battery, British 99th Light AA Regiment in action, Cassino, Italy, 12 May 1944

British battlecruiser HMS Renown (center of photograph), British battleship HMS Valiant (right), and French battleship Richelieu (left) in the Indian Ocean, 12 May 1944; photographed from a USS Saratoga aircraft	German Me 410 aircraft attacking a B-17G bomber of US 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group over Brüx, Czechoslovakia (now Most, Czech Republic) May 12 1944; photo taken from the B-17G aircraft “Lady Godiva”