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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, New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1944

Église Notre-Dame and surroundings in ruins, Vire, France, 1944	Eight WASP pilots assigned to Greenville AAF, Greenville, Mississippi, United States, Aug 1944. Deanie Bishop is in the front row, second from the right.

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

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

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.