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German Tiger I heavy tank and a horse-mounted German soldier in Russia, spring 1944	German Tiger I heavy tank and two truck-mounted 2 cm Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft guns in Russia, spring 1944	German-sponsored Azad Hind troops manning a MG 34 machine gun, spring 1944	Two bombsight technicians working on a Lucas Harold built Norden bombsight on a calibration stand, presumably in the Burma Theater circa 1944. Note the “training material” on the wall behind the technicians.

US Army Sargeant Louis Reid with a Chinese soldier, northern Burma, Feb-Mar 1944	US servicemen in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 1944	V-2 rocket on a portable launch stand, circa 1944, location unknown.	United States Army diagram of the German Model 24 Stielhandgranate “Potato Masher” hand grenade dated 7 Mar 1944.

USS San Diego underway, 8 Mar 1944; seen from an airship of US Navy Blimp Squadron 32	Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell awarding the Silver Star medal to Colonel Rothwell H. Brown, Hukawng Valley, northern Burma, 18 Mar 1944	Agnes Apostle and Joyce Horne working on the final assembly of Browning Hi-Power handguns at the Inglis factory in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Apr 1944	Armorer cleaning the bore of a 75mm cannon mounted in a B-25G Mitchell bomber of the 820th Bomb Squadron, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands; Mar-Apr 1944

Chinese-Canadian worker Agnes Wong assembling a Sten gun at the Small Arms Ltd. plant, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, circa Apr 1944	German MG42 machine gun crew fighting in Monte Cassino, Italy, Apr 1944, photo 1 of 2	German MG42 machine gun crew fighting in Monte Cassino, Italy, Apr 1944, photo 2 of 2	German paratroopers in the cellar of a destroyed house in Cassino, Italy, 1944, photo 1 of 3

German paratroopers in the cellar of a destroyed house in Cassino, Italy, 1944, photo 2 of 3	German paratroopers in the cellar of a destroyed house in Cassino, Italy, 1944, photo 3 of 3	PT Boat PT-564 being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 1944. Note the Mark XIII aerial torpedoes on the deck. The smaller, lighter, faster PT-564 design was not put into production.	The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward.