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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

British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, at his desk at the Admiralty in London, England, United Kingdom, Oct 1944	Broadside view of destroyer USS Hoel in her Measure 21, Design 1D paint scheme, Oct 1944, possibly in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Admiralty Islands.

Broadside view of the port side of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) at anchor showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944, probably at Ulithi.	Canadian Chevrolet CMP Field Artillery Tractor pulling a QF 25-pounder howitzer with limber after landing in the South of France, Sep-Oct 1944. Note LST-551 among other LSTs.

Captured German pilot who was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Weisweiler, Germany, fall 1944.	Carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) in camouflage Measure MS-33/10a at Puget Sound, Washington, US, Oct 1944.

Claire Chennault, China, late 1944	Close-up view of the turret of a Tiger II heavy tank, Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944

Court martial proceedings against 50 sailors charged with mutiny following the Port Chicago munitions explosion, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California, United States, Oct 1944.	Cruiser USS Honolulu underway with her Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme, Pacific Ocean, 1944

Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver making a landing approach to the USS Ticonderoga as seen from the carrier’s fantail below the level of the flight deck during training operations in the Central Pacific, Oct 1944.	Émile Bertin at Toulon, France, Oct 1944

Enlisted men of the USMC Assistant Division Commander at Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944; note three African-American messmen	Escort carrier USS Steamer Bay launching two F6F Hellcat fighters as replacement aircraft for Task Force 38 aircraft carriers, fall of 1944 in the Philippine Sea. Note the radome on one of the Hellcats.

F-5E-2-LO Lightning reconnaissance aircraft of the 31st Photo Reconnaisance Squadron in flight over France, Jul-Dec 1944	F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222 at Renard Field, Russell Islands, Solomons, 1944. Note the National Insignia on the tops of both wings over a year after that practice was discontinued.