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'Converted Mountaineers' in costume aboard USS West Virginia, Oct 1944	10-year-old Chinese soldier at Myitkyina airfield, Burma awaiting a transport aircraft to take his unit back to China, mid-1944 (photo production date 5 Dec 1944)

13 Liberty Ships deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach shielding the ships in shore, late 1944	A depot of jerrican fuel containers awaiting loading onto US Army 'Red Ball Express' trucks, Europe, 1944

A truck of the US Army 'Red Ball Express' fell into a ditch at the side of a road; GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transports lined the road as a GMC AFKWX tractor struggled to free itself, France, 1944	A typical meal for the US Marines in the field, photo taken at Peleliu, Palau Islands, Oct 1944; note canned pork loaf, crackers, lemonade, and dried peaches

African-American ground crew of US 99th Fighter Squadron 'Tuskeegee Airmen' loading a wing tank onto an US 15th Air Force P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, late 1944	African-American pilot Lt. Andrew Marshall, shot down in Greece and kept in hiding by Greek resistant fighters, returned to tell his tale to an American pilot of the 51st Troop Carrier Wing, Oct 1944

African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944	Albert Wedemeyer, He Yingqin, and another Chinese officer, Chongqing, China, Oct 1944

An aircraft maintenance crewman with the 497th Bomb Group at Isley Field on Saipan, Mariana Islands securing a propeller for a B-29 Superfortress to a service trailer, late 1944. Note B-29 “Lucky Lynn” beyond.	An SB2C Helldiver making its final landing approach on the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) operating in the Pacific, 1944

B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 1 of 3	B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 2 of 3

B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight together during a test conducted by Boeing, circa late 1944, photo 3 of 3	B-17G Fortress “The Thomper” is under fighter attack and the tail gunner is returning fire, Oct 1944. Location unknown. Note right wing damage and trailing smoke.

B-24 Liberators of the 451st Bomb Group flying from Castelluccio, Italy (Foggia complex) leaving condensation trails during a mission, 1944-45.	B-24 Liberators of the 451st Bomb Group flying from Castelluccio, Italy (Foggia complex) leaving condensation trails during a mission, 1944-45.

B-24H Liberator bomber 'Lil' Cookie', Lead Assembly Ship of 489th Bomber Group, US 845th Bomber Squadron, RAF Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Apr-Nov 1944	B-24J bomber, the brightly painted lead assembly ship of the 389th Bomber Group, US 567th Bomber Squadron, RAF Hethel, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-Nov 1944