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| Reconnaissance photograph of the southern area of Heito Airfield, Heito (now Pingdong), Taiwan, 13 Oct 1944; photo taken by aircraft from USS Wasp | Shinchiku Airfield under US Navy carrier aircraft attack, Taiwan, 13 Oct 1944, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Shinchiku Airfield under US Navy carrier aircraft attack, Taiwan, 13 Oct 1944, photo 2 of 2 | A Japanese aircraft crashing near USS Princeton off Taiwan, 14 Oct 1944; note South Dakota-class battleship USS South Dakota or USS Alabama in background |
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| African-American US Merchant Marine oiler Arnold R. Fesser: 'We got a big job to do until this war is won. We will keep them sailing until the end. Then we have got time for holidays.' 14 Oct 1944 | Flight deck crew of USS Langley ducking as a Japanese aircraft attacked the carrier (seen in center of photo), off Taiwan, 14 Oct 1944 |
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| Japanese B6N aircraft releasing a torpedo in waters between Taiwan and Philippine Islands, 14 Oct 1944; USS Alabama and a destroyer in background; photo taken from USS Essex | Japanese-American troops of the 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regiment, US 34th Infantry Division awaiting transport, 14 Oct 1944 |
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| Lancaster B Mark I bomber of No. 101 Squadron RAF (Warrant Officer R. B. Tibbs) dropping a 4,000-lb HC 'cookie' bomb and up to 108 30-lb 'J' incendiary bombs over Duisburg, Germany during Operation Hurricane, 14 Oct 1944 | Lancaster B Mark I bomber of No. 101 Squadron RAF (Warrant Officer R. B. Tibbs) dropping up to 108 30-lb 'J' incendiary bombs over Duisburg, Germany during Operation Hurricane, 14 Oct 1944 |
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| Major Louis E. Scherck briefing airmen of 40th Bomb Group, USAAF XX Bomber Command at a base in China, 14 Oct 1944; note map of Taiwan showing Takao region | The launching party for Liberty Ship SS Harriet Tubman, 3 Jun 1944 |
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| Browning M1919 machine gun crew of 2nd Battalion, US 26th Infantry in the streets of Aachen, Germany, 15 Oct 1944 | Destroyer USS Saufley after her overhaul in San Francisco, California, 15 Oct 1944. Note her new Measure 31/9D black and gray paint scheme. Photo 1 of 3. |
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| Destroyer USS Saufley after her overhaul in San Francisco, California, 15 Oct 1944. Note her new Measure 31/9D black and gray paint scheme. Photo 2 of 3. | Destroyer USS Saufley after her overhaul in San Francisco, California, 15 Oct 1944. Note her new Measure 31/9D black and gray paint scheme. Photo 3 of 3. |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944. | King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters in the Netherlands, 15 Oct 1944. |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery leaving church services in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 15 Oct 1944. | King George VI of the United Kingdom knighting General Miles Dempsey, investing him as a Knight Commander in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944. |
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