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Stern view of USS Harder, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 Feb 1944	USS harder at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 19 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2	Franklin in the Elizabeth River, off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 21 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 4	Franklin in the Elizabeth River, off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 21 Feb 1944, photo 3 of 4

Carrier Shangri-La launching ceremony, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944	Carrier Shangri-La shortly after launching, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944; seen in the US Navy publication USS Shangri-La 1944-1945 cruise book	Josephine Doolittle, wife of James Doolittle, breaking a bottle of champagne at the launching ceremony of carrier Shangri-La, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2; note yard commandant Rear Admiral Felix Gygax holding a microphone near the bottle	Josephine Doolittle, wife of James Doolittle, breaking a bottle of champagne at the launching ceremony of carrier Shangri-La, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 24 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 2; note yard commandant Rear Admiral Felix Gygax holding a microphone near the bottle

A sailor sitting in the starboard steering gear ram room of the USS Intrepid seen through a torpedo hole in the hull 15 feet below the waterline, taken as the water receded in Pearl Harbor Drydock #1, 26 Feb 1944.	Damage to USS Intrepid’s starboard rudder being examined in Pearl Harbor Drydock #1, 26 Feb 1944. The damage was done by an aerial torpedo on 17 Feb 1944 off Truk.	Looking up into a torpedo hole in the USS Intrepid hull 15 feet below the waterline near the starboard rudder, taken in Pearl Harbor Drydock #1, 26 Feb 1944. The damage was done 17 Feb 1944 off Truk.	Aerial view of Hozan Airfield in Takao (now Fengshan District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan, Mar 1944

Battleship Washington in drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard to repair collision damage sustained from battleship Indiana in the previous month, US Territory of Hawaii, Mar 1944	Colonel Benjamin Davis, Jr. and Captain Edward Gleed standing in front of fellow African-American pilot Lieutenant White's P-51D Mustang 'Creamer's Dream', Europe, circa 1944	Living quarters, Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	Merchant ships Dominican Victory, Yugoslavia Victory, Plymouth Victory, Niantic Victory, Rock Island Victory, Claremont Victory, and Rutland Victory at Kaiser Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Portland, Oregon, United States, early 1944

Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, Mar 1944	P-40N Warhawk fighters of the 74th Fighter Squadron (direct descendent of the AVG Flying Tigers) in China, probably Kweilin (now Guilin) 1943-44. Note rocket tubes being mounted under the wing.	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Harry the Horse', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group airman posing alongside of the nose art of A-20 Havoc aircraft 'Jo Jo', Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944