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Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of Saint-Lô, France, circa Jul-Aug 1944	US Marines in the Mariana Islands, circa Jul-Aug 1944

Wrecked C6N-1 aircraft of Japanese Navy 121st Kokutai in a hangar, Ushi Point Airfield, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 30 Jul 1944. Note the Marine Corps Curtiss R5C-1 Commando in the background.	A town on Tinian, Mariana Islands in ruins, 31 Jul 1944

Abandoned German equipment on a road to Avranches, France during Operation Cobra, 31 Jul 1944	Allied soldiers and vehicles waited to be loaded prior to a practice landing, possibly for the invasion of Southern France, held near Mondragone, Italy, 31 Jul 1944

Japanese 47mm gun, captured east of Tumon Bay, Guam, Mariana Islands, circa Jul-Aug 1944	Map depicting the Allied breakthrough at Saint-Lô, France, 25-31 Jul 1944

Sergeant F. J. Petrie and sapper L. Roberts examining a captured German Panzerschreck weapon, south of Caumont, France, 31 Jul 1944	This 75mm Japanese gun position at Gaan Point wreaked havoc on men of the US 22nd Marine Regiment before it was silenced, Guam, Mariana Islands, Jul-Aug 1944

US Marines checking out a disabled Japanese tank, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul or Aug 1944	15 cm sFH 18 heavy field artillery being towed in Hungary, Aug 1944

A conovoy of Slovakian resistance fighter vehicles near Kelemes, Czechoslovakia (today part of Presov, Slovakia), summer 1944, photo 1 of 2	A conovoy of Slovakian resistance fighter vehicles near Kelemes, Czechoslovakia (today part of Presov, Slovakia), summer 1944, photo 2 of 2

A flight of P-51 Mustang aircraft, possibly over Europe, 6 Jun-9 Aug 1944	A US Marine standing at the edge of a cliff on Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1944

A WAAF section officer and her assistant issuing electrically-heated waist coat, 1940-pattern boots, and Irvin sheepskin flying jacket (background) to RAF bomber crewmembers, United Kingdom, Aug 1944	A-20G Havoc of the 312th Bomb Group, the “Roarin’ 20s,” supporting the landings at Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1944. The smoke rising from the water is a downed aircraft with a rescue PBY circling.

Admiral Raymond Spruance, Admiral Ernest King, Admiral Chestaer Nimitz, and Major General Sanderford Jarman at Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944	Aerial view of the bocage country at the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, France, mid- or late-1944