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US Marines wading toward Tinian from amphibious tractors and landing boats, Mariana Islands, 25 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 3US Marines wading toward Tinian from amphibious tractors and landing boats, Mariana Islands, 25 Jul 1944, photo 3 of 3A WAAF section officer and her assistant issuing electrically-heated waist coat, 1940-pattern boots, and Irvin sheepskin flying jacket (background) to RAF bomber crewmembers, United Kingdom, Aug 1944British Rifleman Reg Oates and Sergeant James Woodward with a PIAT anti-tank launcher near Caen, France, 1944
US Marines wading toward Tinian from amphibious tractors and landing boats, Mariana Islands, 25 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 3US Marines wading toward Tinian from amphibious tractors and landing boats, Mariana Islands, 25 Jul 1944, photo 3 of 3A WAAF section officer and her assistant issuing electrically-heated waist coat, 1940-pattern boots, and Irvin sheepskin flying jacket (background) to RAF bomber crewmembers, United Kingdom, Aug 1944British Rifleman Reg Oates and Sergeant James Woodward with a PIAT anti-tank launcher near Caen, France, 1944
PT-396, an American built British Vosper design 70-foot motor torpedo boat during builder trials off New York, Aug 1944. Note that the censors scratched out the radar atop the mast.Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane being hoisted aboard the battleship USS Missouri during her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944.Battleship USS Missouri in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States during shakedown exercises, 1 Aug 1944. Note her fresh coat of paint in the Measure 32, Design 22D scheme.WAVES Yeoman Second Class Blanche Oswald and Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin aboard USS Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 19 Aug 1944. Note USS Alaska and escort carrier USS Croatan.
PT-396, an American built British Vosper design 70-foot motor torpedo boat during builder trials off New York, Aug 1944. Note that the censors scratched out the radar atop the mast.Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane being hoisted aboard the battleship USS Missouri during her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944.Battleship USS Missouri in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States during shakedown exercises, 1 Aug 1944. Note her fresh coat of paint in the Measure 32, Design 22D scheme.WAVES Yeoman Second Class Blanche Oswald and Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin aboard USS Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 19 Aug 1944. Note USS Alaska and escort carrier USS Croatan.
Battleship Missouri, large cruiser Alaska, escort carrier Croatan, and destroyers at Norfolk Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 20 Aug 1944Concrete U-boat pens at Brest, France showing damage sustained after bombing attacks by the British Royal Air Force, Aug 1944US Navy PT-199, a 78-foot Higgins motor torpedo boat, tied up with US Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats along the waterfront at Cherbourg, France, 30 Aug 1944.Sketch of an 80-foot PT-Boat in the set up used for Mediterranean service; note the fewer guns, aft positioning of the torpedoes, and the lack of rocket launchers or depth charge racks compared to Pacific boats.
Battleship Missouri, large cruiser Alaska, escort carrier Croatan, and destroyers at Norfolk Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 20 Aug 1944Concrete U-boat pens at Brest, France showing damage sustained after bombing attacks by the British Royal Air Force, Aug 1944US Navy PT-199, a 78-foot Higgins motor torpedo boat, tied up with US Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats along the waterfront at Cherbourg, France, 30 Aug 1944.Sketch of an 80-foot PT-Boat in the set up used for Mediterranean service; note the fewer guns, aft positioning of the torpedoes, and the lack of rocket launchers or depth charge racks compared to Pacific boats.
A forty-foot circle hole in the roof of a U-boat pen in Brest, France which had received a direct hit during the Allied bombardment, 18 Sep 1944British infantry carrying assault boats in preparation for crossing the Meuse-Escaut canal at Lille-St Hubert, Belgium, 19 Sep 1944General Douglas MacArthur traveling by PT-Boat across Leyte Gulf off Tacloban, Philippines aboard PT-525, an Elco 80-foot PT-Boat of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 36 (MTBRon-36), 24 Oct 1944.Princeton survivors jumping from a motorboat for USS Cassin Young, 24 Oct 1944
A forty-foot circle hole in the roof of a U-boat pen in Brest, France which had received a direct hit during the Allied bombardment, 18 Sep 1944British infantry carrying assault boats in preparation for crossing the Meuse-Escaut canal at Lille-St Hubert, Belgium, 19 Sep 1944General Douglas MacArthur traveling by PT-Boat across Leyte Gulf off Tacloban, Philippines aboard PT-525, an Elco 80-foot PT-Boat of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 36 (MTBRon-36), 24 Oct 1944.Princeton survivors jumping from a motorboat for USS Cassin Young, 24 Oct 1944
PT-131 between PT-152 and PT-130, all Eclo 80-foot Motor Torpedo Boats of MTBRon-7, alongside tender USS Wachapreague in Liloan Bay, Philippines preparing to patrol the Surigao Strait, 24 Oct 1944.A PT motor torpedo boat alongside USS Nashville off Tacaloban, Leyte, 25 Oct 1944 to take General MacArthur and his staff ashore to establish Army headquarters on Leyte. Nashville then departed for the Surigao Strait.PT-321, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), picking up Japanese survivors in Surigao Strait, Philippines, 25 Oct 1944Torpedo damage to the hull of cruiser USS Honolulu after being torpedoed in Leyte Gulf on 20 Oct 1944. This photo was taken in floating drydock ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands on 30 Oct 1944.
PT-131 between PT-152 and PT-130, all Eclo 80-foot Motor Torpedo Boats of MTBRon-7, alongside tender USS Wachapreague in Liloan Bay, Philippines preparing to patrol the Surigao Strait, 24 Oct 1944.A PT motor torpedo boat alongside USS Nashville off Tacaloban, Leyte, 25 Oct 1944 to take General MacArthur and his staff ashore to establish Army headquarters on Leyte. Nashville then departed for the Surigao Strait.PT-321, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), picking up Japanese survivors in Surigao Strait, Philippines, 25 Oct 1944Torpedo damage to the hull of cruiser USS Honolulu after being torpedoed in Leyte Gulf on 20 Oct 1944. This photo was taken in floating drydock ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands on 30 Oct 1944.

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