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B-24 Liberator bombers of the 451st Bomb Group flying from Italy over Ploesti oil fields, Romania, May-Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	B-24 Liberator bombers of the 451st Bomb Group flying from Italy over Ploesti oil fields, Romania, May-Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2.

B-24D Liberator aircraft 'Pete the POM Inspector', Lead Assembly Ship of 467th Bomber Group, US 790th Bomber Squadron, RAF Rackheath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Mar-Oct 1944	B-24J Liberator bombers, C-47 Skytrain transports, and B-29 Superfortress bombers at Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944

Blood and plasma moving from Britain to the front lines in France, 1944; note C-47 Skytrain aircraft and GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 short wheel-base truck	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	CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 of the American Red Cross exiting landing craft during the Normandy campaign, France, 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