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British generals Harold Alexander and Oliver Leese decorated with Polish Virtuti Military Cross awards, Italy, Jul 1944	British troops loading an Ordinance QR six-pound field gun through the side door of a Horsa I glider, location unknown, 1944.

Camouflaged German paratrooper with Panzerfaust, France, Jun-Jul 1944	Canadian Army photographer Lieutenant George Cooper speaking with Captain R. T. Miller and his Humber LRC Mk III crew near Caen, France, Jul 1944

Canadian tank crew directs traffic around a disabled M4 Sherman tank while they install a new tread on a narrow road in Normandy, France, 1944. Note CMP ambulance and another CMP truck cab at right.	Captured American M8 armored cars, northern France, summer 1944, photo 1 of 2

Captured American M8 armored cars, northern France, summer 1944, photo 2 of 2	Captured resistance fighters, France, Jul 1944

Cliffs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944	Cointet-element anti-tank obstacles placed on the beach to deter amphibious invasions, Normandy, France, Jun-Jul 1944

Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, mid-1944	Convoy of US CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport trucks moving inland after heavy equipment cleared the road, Normandy, France, 1944; note Jeeps and heavy earth moving equipment

Corsair fighters and Barracuda torpedo bombers aboard HMS Formidable, in the Atlantic Ocean off Norway, Jul 1944	Crew of battleship Missouri performing abandon ship drills, summer 1944; note OS2N-1 Kingfisher aircraft in background on port side catapult

Cruiser USS Nashville in floating drydock ABSD-1 at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides late Jun 1944. Nashville was having hull damage repaired after a close bomb near-miss in the Bismarck Sea on 4 Jun 1944.	Cruiser USS Nashville shortly after her repairs at Espiritu Santo, Jul 1944. Note the OS2U Kingfisher float planes on her catapults and her new Measure 33, Design 21D paint scheme.

Cvilians placing flowers on the body of a dead American soldier, Carentan, France, mid-1944	D4Y2-S prototype aircraft, Yokosuka Navy Air Corps Oppama Base, Japan, summer 1944

Destroyed factory, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944	Destroyed German Sd.Kfz. 124 Wespe self-propelled gun carriage near Mortrée, Orne, Normandy, France, circa Jun-Jul 1944