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German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfaust recoilless launchers and Panzerschreck rocket launcher in East Prussia, Germany, Nov 1944	Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York, New York, United States, Nov 1944

Hungarian civilians and a German SS soldier in Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944; note Panzerfaust	Hungarian troops with a 7.5cm Pak 40 antitank gun, suburb of Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944

Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck	Japanese prisoner of war, Guam, Nov 1944

Japanese prisoners of war, Guam, Nov 1944	Japanese-American soldier of Company F, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing on guard, France, Nov 1944

Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a round of mortar, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, circa late 1944	Lieutenant May, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey, and Lieutenant Commander William Mailliard at Hollandia, New Guinea, Nov 1944

Line of F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMA-21 at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas, 1944. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft but (obviously) not unheard of.	Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (center) with other soldiers in the field, 1944, location uncertain.

Medical staff and their WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-17 bombers, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1944-45. Note the flare shot from the B-17 indicating wounded personnel on board	Men built sandbag piers at a Leyte beach while two US Coast Guard-manned LSTs opened their cargo bay doors, circa late 1944

Model, Rundstedt, and Krebs studying a map on the Western Front, Nov 1944	New Jersey at sea in the Pacific, circa late 1944 or 1945

P-38J Lightning aircraft of 370th Fighter Group, US 485th Fighter Squadron at the former Luftwaffe night fighter base at Florennes, Belgium, Oct-Dec 1944; note wrecked Me 210 aircraft in foreground	P-38L Lightning aircraft flying in formation during Lockheed test pilot Milo Burcham's funeral, southern California, United States, late 1944

Photo through the cloud cover taken from aircraft from Bombing Squadron VB-14 from the USS Wasp (Essex-class) showing the discovery of a Japanese warship underway, 1944	PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter.