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Germans loading artwork from the Zachęta art gallery onto trucks for transport to Germany, Jul 1944, photo 3 of 3	Grumman TBF Avenger firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at a United States test range, mid-1944.

HMS Rodney and other warships off the coast of Normandie off Caen, France, Jun-Jul 1944	Holland M. Smith, Harry Schmidt, and Graves B. Erskine, Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944

Holland Smith on a Jeep on Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944	Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha tank and other vehicles during Operation Ichigo in Henan Province, China, 1944

Jul 1944 United States Navy Landing Chart for Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii.	LCT-855 landing Dodge WC54 field ambulances at Normandy, France, Jun 1944

Lockheed P-38 Lightning at a training base in the United States, mid-1944. Note wing mounted HVAR air-to-surface rockets.	Looking aft from the signal bridge of USS Lexington (Essex-class) with 40mm Bofors mount and two 5-inch/38 mounts as F6F Hellcat approaches for a landing, Jun 1944

Louis Mountbatten and Douglas MacArthur, Jul 1944	LVT-2 Water Buffalo bringing US Marines to the beaches of Tinian Island, Mariana Islands, Jul 1944

M4 Sherman tanks being unloaded from USCG-manned LST-67 and LST-66, Noemfoor, New Guinea, Jul 1944; note leading tank with bulldozer blade and Jeep at right	Makeshift grave of an US Marine, marked by his poncho and bayoneted rifle, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944

Map detailing Allied advances in New Guinea and the Mariana Islands, 22 Apr-24 Jul 1944	Map of the Japanese Operation Ichigo offensive in China, Apr-Dec 1944

Map showing Allied advance from Rome toward the Arno River, Italy, 5 Jun-5 Aug 1944	Marmite cans with blood collected from rear echelon troops in England, United Kingdom were being transferred from Dodge WC54 Ambulance to waiting Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman for air transport to Normandy

Medical personnel of the 306th Bomb Group at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England tending to a wounded airman, 1944-45.	Non-commissioned officers of Headquarters Company, 422nd Infantry Battalion, 106th Infantry Division at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, 1944. Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds is in the front row, second from left.