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| Vice Admiral Theodore Wilkinson (left), Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid (center), and Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey (right) attend a meeting of senior officers of US Navy Third and Seventh Fleets at Seventh Fleet Headquarters to plan the invasion of Leyte, Philippines, circa Sep 1944 | WAVES Yeoman 3rd Class Ellen Figg posing by the entrance to the Old Capitol Grounds, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, circa Sep 1944 |
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| Captain Carlos Wieber bids welcome to the Ruler of the Raging Main, Neptunus Rex, and his Court aboard USS Essex for the Line Crossing ceremony, 1 Sep 1944 | Field Marshal Montgomery stands up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car as he crosses a pontoon bridge over the River Seine at Vernon, France, 1 Sep 1944. |
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| Line Crossing ceremony aboard USS Essex, 1 Sep 1944 | Line Crossing ceremony aboard USS Essex, 1 Sep 1944. Official captions reads, "The way of the Pollywog is hard." |
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| Map depicting the US 7th Army's front in Southern France, 1 Sep 1944 | Map depicting the western front of the European War, 1 Sep 1944 |
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| P-40 Warhawk fighter 'Little Joe II' at the Kunming airfield in Yunnan, China, 1 Sep 1944 | Prince Felix of Luxembourg, General Bernard Montgomery, French Colonel Candeau, and Brigadier General Christopher Peto at 21st Army Group headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 1 Sep 1944. |
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| Rear Admiral Frederic Sherman, left, and Captain Carlos Wieber bid welcome to the Ruler of the Raging Main, Neptunus Rex, and his Court aboard USS Essex for the Line Crossing ceremony, 1 Sep 1944 | Sep 1944 map showing the general layout of Kaiser Richmond Shipyards Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 plus the prefabrication shops, Richmond, California, United States. |
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| Wallet certificate issued to AOM2c Neil Wirick of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 aboard the USS Princeton on the occasion of crossing the equator, which happened on 1 Sep 1944 as Princeton steamed from Eniwetok to Palau. | Crew of USS Finback pulling downed airman Lieutenant (jg) George Bush from the water off Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands, 2 Sep 1944 |
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| George Bush and other rescued airmen with some of the officers and men of USS Finback, Sep 1944 | Resistance fighters Tadeusz Rajszczak (young boy in foreground), Henryka Zarzycka-Dziakowska (woman behind Rajszczak), and others near Nowy Swiat Street, Warsaw, Poland, early morning of 2 Sep 1944 |
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| US Army personnel observing dummy Junkers Ju-88 bombers left behind at the airfield at Épinay, France, 2 Sep 1944. | USS Louisville at anchor in the Purvis Inlet, Solomon Islands, 2 Nov 1944. |
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| Young Polish resistance fighters Tadeusz Rajszczak (left), an unidentified fighter, and Michal Lach (right) near Nowy Swiat Street, Warsaw, Poland, early morning of 2 Sep 1944 | USS Cummings in Measure 32 Design 23D paint scheme as seen from an aircraft from USS Monterey while approaching Wake Island for a bombardment, 3 Sep 1944. Photo 1 of 2. |
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