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US Marines on Peleliu, Palau Islands, Sep 1944	US Marines waiting in their foxholes as others blast a Japanese held cave in the nearby hill, Peleliu, Palau Islands, late Sep or early Oct 1944	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.	A typical meal for the US Marines in the field, photo taken at Peleliu, Palau Islands, Oct 1944; note canned pork loaf, crackers, lemonade, and dried peaches

African-American US Army soldiers of 4185th Quartermaster Service Company unloading rations from a truck, Liege, Belgium, 1944	Canadian Chevrolet CMP Field Artillery Tractor pulling a QF 25-pounder howitzer with limber after landing in the South of France, Sep-Oct 1944. Note LST-551 among other LSTs.	Captured German pilot who was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Weisweiler, Germany, fall 1944.	Court martial proceedings against 50 sailors charged with mutiny following the Port Chicago munitions explosion, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California, United States, Oct 1944.

Enlisted men of the USMC Assistant Division Commander at Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944; note three African-American messmen	F6F-5 Hellcats being prepared for take-off aboard the carrier Franklin off Luzon, Philippine Islands, Oct 1944. Note SB2C Helldivers spotted aft.	Hungarian and German soldiers rounding up Jews in Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944	Japanese-American troops of US Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team in a jeep in the Chambois Sector in France, circa Oct 1944; note anti-decapitation device on front bumper

Kenney (center) and MacArthur (right) aboard USS Nashville off Leyte, Philippines, Oct 1944	Late 1944 photograph of the wreckage left from the scuttling of the French fleet on 27 Nov 1942, Toulon Naval Dockyard, France. Wrecks of the Tartu, Cassard, L’Indomptable, Vautour, and Aigle can be seen.	Polish resistance fighters Henryk Ozarek (with Vis pistol) and Tadeusz Przybyszewski (with Blyskawica submachine gun) of Anna Company of Gustaw Battalion fighting on Kredytowa-Krolewska Street, Warsaw, Poland, Oct 1944	Post office of US 4th Marine Division, Saipan, Mariana Islands, late 1944

Skull and danger sign in combat area, Pelelu, Palau Islands, Oct 1944	Slovakian resistance fighters with a captured German 8.8cm gun, 1944	Soviet T-34-85 tanks eastern Yugoslavia, Sep-Nov 1944	United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, on the flag bridge of USS Nashville during the Leyte landing operations, Oct 1944.