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| USS Escolar, possibly off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, circa Jun 1944 | USS Guitarro underway, 1944-1945 |
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| USS Honolulu at anchor in Purvis Bay, Florida Islands, Solomons, June 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme, only two cruisers were painted this way. | USS Iowa in camouflage Measure 32, mid-1944 |
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| USS Pogy underway off Hunters Point near San Francisco, California, United States, Jun 1944 | USS Tang at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, date unknown |
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| View of the Poltava tent city as seen from an arriving B-17 Fortress on an Operation Frantic mission, Poltava, Ukraine, summer 1944 (still image from an Army Signal Corps movie film). | WASP pilot Florene Watson, one of the original WAF pilots, warming up her P-51D aircraft in Inglewood, California, United States, spring 1944 |
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| WASP pilot Helen W. Snapp flying her A-25A Shrike tow aircraft near Camp Stewart, Georgia, United States, Jun 1944 | WASP pilot Margaret Phelan Taylor, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, Jun 1944 |
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| Workers arriving at the CalShip yard by ferry, circa 1944, Los Angeles, California, United States. Note the fourteen CalShip shipways. | Workmen inspecting the hull damage to USS Nashville in Jun 1944 after a bomb near-miss in the Bismarck Sea on 4 Jun 1944. Photo probably taken at Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island. Note the shrapnel splatter pattern. |
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| Yeoman 2nd Class Bernice Elliot and Yeoman 3rd Class Martha Dietlin watched as Seaman 1st Class Kay Magee tried on her Overseas Cap, Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 1944-1945 | Zuikaku and two destroyers at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Jun 1944 |
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| A Rhino barge docked with LST-347 in Portland Harbor, Dorset, England, United Kingdom during preparations for the Normandy invasion, 1 Jun 1944. | A Soviet soldier being awarded the Defense of Leningrad medal, 1 Jun 1944 |
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| P-47D Thunderbolts of the 318th Fighter Group are loaded onto Escort Carrier USS Natoma Bay, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 1, 1944. The Fighter Group was on its way to Saipan, Marianas. Note USS Manila Bay with the rest of the Fighter Group’s Thunderbolts. | US Army Rangers awaited the invasion signal in a landing craft in an English port, circa early Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2; note the bazooka and the M1 Garand rifles |
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| US Army Rangers awaited the invasion signal in a landing craft in an English port, circa early Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2; note the bazooka and the M1 Garand rifles | US LSTs 284, 380, 382, and 499 loading men, vehicles, and supplies for the upcoming Normandy Invasion in Brixham Harbor, Devon, England, Jun 1 1944. Note wings and fuselage of an Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper observation aircraft on a CCKW truck. |
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