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Private Clyde Peacock and the rest of the 1st MP Platoon of the US 1st Army wait in England to board transports to Normandy, early June 1944. The Military Police would be responsible for managing traffic and holding POWs.	PzKpfw 35 S 739(f) medium tank in France or Belgium, Jun 1944	Royal Navy LCA landing craft churn through the waters of a British port, taking American troops to a waiting ship during preparations for the Normandy invasion, circa May-Jun 1944	Royal Navy LCA-1377 carried American troops to a ship in a British port during preparations for the Normandy invasion, circa May-Jun 1944

SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944	SdKfz. 10 half-track vehicle towing a 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun, Russia, Jun 1944	Soviet IS-2 heavy tank, Jun 1944	Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower (left) and other dignitaries examining a 4,000-pound bomb at RAF Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire, England in the spring of 1944.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi directing defenders at Iwo Jima, Japan, circa May 1944-Jan 1945	Tail gunner on a Martin B-26 Marauder with the 386th Bomb Group taking his position with a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera, 1944.	TBM-1C Avenger bombers prepared to take off from Monterey to attack targets on Tinian, Jun 1944	Tiger I heavy tanks of the German 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Viller-Bocage, France, Jun 1944

Top view of a P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight over the English countryside, Jun 1944	Two female workers assembling PIAT anti-tank launher parts, Orilla, Ontario, Canada, Jun 1944	Two German Tiger II heavy tanks with Porsche-built turrets on the move, France, Jun 1944	Two German Tiger II heavy tanks with so-called "Porsche" turrets (actually a Krupp design) at rest, France, Jun 1944

United States Coast Guard Captains Edward Fritzche (left) and Miles Imlay (right) examining a relief map of Omaha Beach laid out in the hold of the Attack Transport USS Samuel Chase, Jun 1944.	United States Navy photograph of Rear Admiral Walden Ainsworth, 1943-44.	US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo truck with Browning M2 machine gun preparing to be loaded aboard an LST prior to the Normandy invasion, southern England, Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2	US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo truck with Browning M2 machine gun preparing to be loaded aboard an LST prior to the Normandy invasion, southern England, Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2