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Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Presidential Unit Citation pennant to USS Bowfin commanding officer Commander John Corbus at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jul 1944.	British generals Harold Alexander and Oliver Leese decorated with Polish Virtuti Military Cross awards, Italy, Jul 1944	German Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle with his staff of Luftflotte 3, France, summer 1944	Holland M. Smith, Harry Schmidt, and Graves B. Erskine, Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944

Holland Smith on a Jeep on Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1944	Louis Mountbatten and Douglas MacArthur, Jul 1944	Non-commissioned officers of Headquarters Company, 422nd Infantry Battalion, 106th Infantry Division at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, 1944. Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds is in the front row, second from left.	Obituary of Stefanica Paunescu, 1944

US Generals Eisenhower and Bradley speaking with a member of the French resistance, Normandy, France, summer 1944	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographers Jack Heyn and George Tackaberry, Hollandia Airfield, Dutch New Guinea, Jul 1944	USAAF photographer Jack Heyn posing before an A-20 aircraft, Hollandia, 1944	Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley share a laugh as they leave Gen Ira Wyche’s 79th Division headquarters in Huanville, Normandy, France, July 4, 1944.

Francis Gabreski posing in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, shortly after 5 Jul 1944	General Bernard Montgomery relaxing with his traveling companions, a fox terrier puppy named “Hitler” and a spaniel puppy named “Rommel,” at his headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 6 Jul 1944.	King George VI of the United Kingdom, shadowed by his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, speaks with Colonel George Robinson, commanding officer of the 306th Bomb Group, RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 6 Jul 1944.	Left to Right: SSgt William Landrum, Princess Elizabeth, King George VI of the United Kingdom, SSgt Watson Vaughn (obscured), Queen Elizabeth, LGen Jimmy Doolittle, and B-17G ‘Rose of York’ at RAF Thurleigh, 6 Jul 1944.

LtGen Jimmy Doolittle speaking with Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom during a Royal visit to RAF Thurleigh, home of the USAAF 306th Bomb Group, 6 Jul 1944.	Princess Elizabeth, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and LtGen Jimmy Doolittle beside the B-17G ‘Rose of York’ after the bomber’s christening in honor of the Princess, RAF Thurleigh, 6 Jul 1944	US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson greeting a Japanese-American US Army captain of 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Route 68, north of Cecina, Italy, 6 Jul 1944	Bernard Montgomery bestowing the British Distinguished Service Order on Maxwell Taylor of the American 101st Airborne Division, Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Jul 1944.