9,430 items in this album on 472 pages.
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| Victory-ship Nicaragua Victory on Shipway 5 at Shipyard No. 1 at the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, Richmond, California, United States, Aug 1944. | Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane being hoisted aboard the battleship USS Missouri during her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944. |
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| Wounded US Marine, Guam, Jul-Aug 1944 | Young Polish insurgent fighter, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944 |
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| Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Major General Henry L. Larsen, and Major General Roy S. Geiger, Orote Peninsula, Guam, Mariana Islands, 1 Aug 1944 | Battleship USS Missouri in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States during shakedown exercises, 1 Aug 1944. Note her fresh coat of paint in the Measure 32, Design 22D scheme. |
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| British soldier with PIAT at Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, Basse-Normandie, France, 1 Aug 1944 | Capt Andrew D Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron CO, and Lt. Clarence P. (Lucky) Lester on the Marsden Matting of Ramitelli Airstrip, Italy. Behind them is Maj Turner’s P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III.” 1 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2. |
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| Damaged Railway near Coutances, Normandy, France, 1 Aug 1944 | Demonstration of a captured German Panzerschreck weapon by an instructor of UK 59th Division, France, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| Ensign Darrell Bennett stood beside his FM-2 Wildcat 'Smokey's Lucky Witch', USS Gambier Bay, 1 Aug 1944 | Franklin in the Mariana Islands, 1 Aug 1944; photograph taken from carrier Hornet |
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| Pilots of the “Tuskegee Airmen,” 332nd Fighter Group in front of P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III” flown by Capt Andrew Turner (2nd from right), at Ramitelli, Italy, 1 Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2. | Polish resistance fighters Lieutenant Stanislaw Jankowski (foreground), Witold Abrożewicz (next in line), Kazimierz M. Piechotka, Leon Putowski, and Wojciech Bernatowicz (last in line) moments before W-hour (1700 hours) which marked the start of the Warsaw Uprising, Kazimierza Wielkiego, Warsaw, Poland, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| Three Swordfish aircraft, equipped with rockets, performing a training flight from St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station, United Kingdom, 1 Aug 1944 | Troops of British 59th Division with a captured German 8 cm GrW 34 mortar, Vienne-en-Bessin, France, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| United States Navy Vice-Admirals Aubrey Fitch (left) and John McCain on the occasion of Fitch relieving McCain as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, Washington DC, United States, 1 Aug 1944. | US Navy African-American Miles Davis King carrying a loaded magazine for a 20-mm gun aboard CVE USS Tulagi en route to France, Aug 1944 |
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| A French Army Sherman tank landed on a Normandy beach from LST-517, 2 Aug 1944 | A school destroyed during the uprising, intersection of Chlodna and Waliców streets, Warsaw, Poland, 2 Aug 1944 |
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