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USS Enterprise in her new Measure 33-4Ab paint scheme leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for exercises, 4 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 4.	USS Enterprise in her new Measure 33-4Ab paint scheme leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for exercises, 4 Aug 1944. Photo 3 of 4.

USS Enterprise in her new Measure 33-4Ab paint scheme leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for exercises, 4 Aug 1944. Photo 4 of 4.	Finnish soldiers during Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Karjala, Finland, 5 Aug 1944; note German panzerfaust anti-armor weapon

Generals Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and Miles Dempsey with Air-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory in conference on the hood (bonnet) of Montgomery’s Humber Super Snipe staff car, near St. Lô, Normandy, France, 5 Aug 1944.	Polish resistance fighters Wojciech Omyla, Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, and Tadeusz Milewski in captured German uniforms and Kar98k rifles, Warsaw, Poland, 5 Aug 1944

Wrecked Jagdpanzer 38(t) on the street of Warsaw, Poland, 5 Aug 1944; this vehicle was captured and repaired by Polish fighters, and renamed 'Chwat'; it was later destroyed by Germans during fighting near the main post office	B-24J Liberator of the 856th Bomb Squadron over the target of the Rhenania-Ossag oil refinery near Hamburg, Germany, Aug 6 1944.

A column of Kangaroo armored personnel carrier converted from M7 Priest self-propelled artillery vehicles, France, 7 Aug 1944	A German mechanized column destroyed by British aircraft, near Mortain, France, 7 Aug 1944; note dead German soldier near wrecked SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sharing a relaxing moment with General Bernard Montgomery’s spaniel puppy “Rommel” at Montgomery’s headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Aug 1944.	Japanese-American mortar crew of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing into suspected German sniper positions, Montenero area, Italy, 7 Aug 1944, photo 1 of 2

Japanese-American mortar crew of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing into suspected German sniper positions, Montenero area, Italy, 7 Aug 1944, photo 2 of 2	Japanese-American soldier of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing at a suspected German sniper position, Montenero area, Italy, 7 Aug 1944

Japanese-American soldier of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing his M1 Garand rifle at a suspected German sniper position, Montenero area, Italy, 7 Aug 1944	A Cromwell tank and jeep of 10 PSK, Polish 1st Armored Division passing an abandoned German PaK 43/41 gun during Operation Totalize, France, 8 Aug 1944

African-American US Army Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. watching a Signal Corps crew erecting poles, France, 8 Aug 1944	Large cruiser Alaska, photographed from the air, 8 Aug 1944

US Maritime Service Lt (jg) Stanly Smith posing at war bond rally, Washington DC, with Nat'l Council of Negro Women Asst Exec Secretary Mrs Marion Elliott and Chairwoman Mrs B. L. Derrick, 8 Aug 1944	USS Blackfin underway, 4 Aug 1944