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Bristol Beaufighter Mk X number NE255 / EE-H of Coastal Defence Maritime Patrol No. 404 Squadron at RAF Davidstow Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, mid-Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	British Horsa Mk II glider after landing, circa 1944; note troops in foreground appeared to be German prisoners

British Rifleman Reg Oates and Sergeant James Woodward with a PIAT anti-tank launcher near Caen, France, 1944	British soldier with Sten gun on a Soviet-built F-22 USV gun which had recently been captured from German troops, France, 1944

Captured Japanese weapons, Guam, Jul-Aug 1944	Carl Spaatz, George Patton, James Doolittle, Hoyt Vandenberg, and Otto Weyland in France, 1944

Carrier Amagi around the time of her commissioning, Aug 1944	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.	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	Chuck Yeager's P-51D Mustang fighter 'Glamorous Glen III', Jun-Dec 1944

Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank in action, Aug 1944	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	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.	DUKW burning on the beaches of Noemfoor, Dutch New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1944

Église Notre-Dame and surroundings in ruins, Vire, France, 1944	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.