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| USS North Carolina anchored off Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States, 24 Sep 1944, photo 3 of 3 | USS Spot underway in the Pacific Ocean, 24 Sep 1944, photo 1 of 3 |
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| USS Spot underway in the Pacific Ocean, 24 Sep 1944, photo 2 of 3 | USS Spot underway in the Pacific Ocean, 24 Sep 1944, photo 3 of 3 |
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| Paratrooper of US 101st Airborne Division tumbling after his landing, the Netherlands, 25 Sep 1944 | Rear quarter view of a captured A6M5 Zero fighter in flight, 25 Sep 1944 |
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| Side view of a captured A6M5 Zero fighter in flight, 25 Sep 1944 | US Navy African-American construction batalion personnel acting as stretcher bearers for the US 7th Marine Regiment, Peleliu, Palau Islands, Sep 1944 |
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| USS Bennington steaming out of New York Harbor en route Norfolk, Virginia, 25 Sep 1944. This photo was taken from an airship with Squadron ZP-12 stationed at Lakehurst, New Jersey. | United States Coast Guard cutter Spencer after her conversion to an Amphibious Force Flagship, Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 26 Sep 1944 |
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| B-17G Fortress “Lost Angel” Belly landed at RAF Kimbolton after being damaged over Magdeburg, Germany, 28 Sep 1944. Note that the crew had unbolted and dropped the ball turret to keep it from breaking the airframe’s back | High-level naval conference in San Francisco, California, United States, 29 Sep 1944. L to R: Admiral Raymond Spruance, Admiral Ernest King, Rear Admiral Charles Cooke, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch. |
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| African-American US Coast Guardsman Fireman 1st Class Charles Tyner displaying his helmet, damaged by large shrapnel during the invasion of Southern France, circa late 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) |
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| 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. | 19-year-old pilot Lt Edwin Wright, already with over 80 missions flown, examining flak damage to his P-47 Thunderbolt on a raid to Münster, Austria, Oct 1944. Wright returned safely to his base in Italy. |
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| 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 | 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 |
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| 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 |
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