9,364 items in this album on 469 pages.
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| Carl Spaatz, George Patton, James Doolittle, Hoyt Vandenberg, and Otto Weyland in France, 1944 | Carrier Amagi around the time of her commissioning, Aug 1944 |
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| Catapult crew of battleship Missouri launching an OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, circa Aug 1944 | Chart published in the United States Maritime Report of Progress showing Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, under the name Permanente, had the lowest average number of days for Liberty-ship construction through 1 Jun 1944. |
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| Chester Nimitz meeting with US Marine officers, Guam, Jul-Aug 1944 | Chinese boy hired to assist troops of Chinese 39th Division during the Salween Offensive, Yunnan Province, China, 1944 |
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| Chuck Yeager's P-51D Mustang fighter 'Glamorous Glen III', Jun-Dec 1944 | Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank in action, Aug 1944 |
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| Close-up of USS Kete's superstructure, Lake Michigan, United States, Aug 1944 | Colonel Horst Niemack and General Hasso von Manteuffel, Soviet Union, Aug 1944 |
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| Crew of Battleship Missouri recovering an OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, circa Aug 1944 | Crewmen aboard HMS Formidable pushing a damaged Corsair fighter which had just landed, off Norway, Aug 1944. Note the prop with one blade badly bent. |
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| DUKW burning on the beaches of Noemfoor, Dutch New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1944 | Église Notre-Dame and surroundings in ruins, Vire, France, 1944 |
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| Electrician’s Mate First Class Kenneth McNally and Seaman First Class George Skiratko, kneeling, operating USS Missouri’s 36-inch searchlight during the ship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944. | F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Hancock, circa 1944; note Hancock's camouflage Measure 32, Design 3a |
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| F6F-5 Hellcat set for a catapult launch from Escort Carrier USS Kasaan Bay in support of Operation Anvil/Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, Aug 1944 | Female resistance fighter with Błyskawica submachine gun, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944 |
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| Finnish Army 152 H/17 howitzers in action, Rukajärvi, Finland, Aug 1944 | Fire Controlman First Class E.M. Smith, gun captain of one of the USS Missouri’s nine 16-inch main guns, opens the gun’s highly polished breech plug during the ship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944. |
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