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Cisterna, Italy in ruins, May-Jun 1944	Close-up view of T30 rocket launchers mounted under the wing of an A-20 Havoc aircraft of 90th Attack Squadron, US 3rd Attack Group, Hollandia, New Guinea, mid-1944

Commanding general of German Army Group G Blaskowitz inspecting defenses in France, Jun 1944	Crew of B-17F Fortress #42-30117 with the 95th Bomb Group posing in front of their airplane at Poltava, Ukraine during an Operation Frantic shuttle mission, summer 1944. The aircraft name translates to Polar Star.

Crews providing maintenance to PV-1 Ventura patrol bombers of US Navy squadron VPB-147 at NAS Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jun 1944; note rocket rails mounted under the wings	Destroyed commissioner's bungalow and tennis court, Kohima, India, Mar-Jul 1944

Diesel engines for M4 Sherman tanks, Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, Warren, Michigan, United States, circa 1944	Dwight Eisenhower's message to Allied servicemen prior to the invasion of France, Jun 1944

Early production Willys Jeep heavily field modified into a litter Jeep carrying wounded soldiers and medics on Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun 1944.	Émile Bertin in drydock at Bizerte, Tunisia, Jun 1944

Ernie Pyle with troops of US 191st Tank Battalion, Anzio, Italy 1944	Essex-class carrier Yorktown underway in the Mariana Islands, Jun 1944; note camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a; also F6F Hellcat fighters, TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, and SB2C Helldiver dive bombers

F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Ticonderoga, Jun-Jul 1944	General George Marshall visits General Mark Clark, commander of the US 5th Army, at his Command Post near Tuscania, Italy where the two generals discussed “Operation Anvil.” June 1944

General Joseph Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944.	George Bush in the cockpit of his TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, mid-1944

German 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun being towed by SdKfz. 10 half-track vehicle, Vitebsk, Russia, Jun 1944	German 8.8 cm FlaK gun crew having a meal in the field, France, summer 1944

German Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back of a halftrack vehicle, France, Jun 1944	German Jagdpanther tank destroyer in France, Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2