29,188 items in this album on 1,460 pages.
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| Downed German aircraft, Italy, 1945 | Drancy Concentration Camp, Paris, France, 1940s |
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| Drawings of both Koryu and Kairyu submarines, copied from 'Extracts from Small Battle Units of Foreign Powers, Appendix III: Japanese Midget Submarines and Explosive Motor Boats', page 38 | DUKW landing on an island in the Pacific Ocean, date unknown; note splash guards fore and aft |
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| Early CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 long wheel-base chassis truck fitted with a Mobile Dental unit for the 47th Armd Medical Battalion, US 1st Armored Division, probably in Italy, 1944-1945 | Early versions of US Army DUKWs entering the water, Europe, date unknown |
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| Eighteen TBM Avengers in flight, 1943-45. | Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-122 traveling at speed, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes in their racks have replaced the heavy steel torpedo tubes allowing for Bofors 40mm gun aft and 37mm cannon forward. |
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| Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-130 at cruising speed as seen from PT-143, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm gun aft, and 37mm cannon forward on PT-130 and Oerlikon 20mm gun in foreground. | Elco 80-foot torpedo boats PT-126 and PT-159 at a floating drydock, 1944-45. Note mottled paint scheme, Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm guns aft, and 37mm cannon forward. |
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| Elefant tank destroyers, circa 1940s | Ernie Pyle interviewing combat photographers, Guam, 1945 |
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| Ernie Pyle, circa 1945 | Experimental P-38H Lightning aircraft, date unknown |
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| Exploded view of a Mark 53 VT Radio Proximity anti-aircraft fuze. | F-5A Lightning aircraft of USAAF 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Aug 1943-May 1945 |
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| F-5B reconnaissance aircraft at rest, date unknown | F-5E Lighting “Kay” of the 40th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron at Akyab Island airstrip, Burma, 1945 (now Sittwe, Myanmar). Note P-51B Mustangs. |
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| F2G-1 Corsair aircraft at rest, 1945; seen in Nov 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News | F4U Corsair fighters of the US Navy in flight over Maui, US Territory of Hawaii, 1945. Photo 1 of 2. |
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