2,196 items in this album on 110 pages.
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B-24D Liberator aircraft 'Pete the POM Inspector', Lead Assembly Ship of 467th Bomber Group, US 790th Bomber Squadron, RAF Rackheath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Mar-Oct 1944 | Blood Chit issued to United States Marine Corps fighter pilots with seven languages including French (Indochina), Korean, and Japanese, 1944. | Crew of battleship Missouri performing abandon ship drills, summer 1944; note OS2N-1 Kingfisher aircraft in background on port side catapult | Marmite cans with blood collected from rear echelon troops in England, United Kingdom were being transferred from Dodge WC54 Ambulance to waiting Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman for air transport to Normandy |
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Two Nuns and a French family examined the ruins of the bombed Église Saint-Malo, Valognes, France, Jul 1944 | Francis Gabreski posing in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, shortly after 5 Jul 1944 | The United Kingdom’s Princess Elizabeth of York holding onto her hat against the wind at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, 6 Jul 1944. She is standing with Col. George Robinson, base commanding officer. | Bernard Montgomery, Omar Bradley, and Brigadier Alexander Stanier at Montgomery's headquarters in Normandie, France, 13 Jul 1944 |
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British and American troops join with residents of Courseulles-sur-Mer in Bastille Day ceremonies at the town’s War Memorial. Courseulles-sur-Mer was the first town in Normandy to be liberated by the Allies. | HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, Egypt, 14 Jul 1944, photo 1 of 2 | HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, Egypt, 14 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2 | New Mexico firing her after 14in guns at Guam, Mariana Islands, circa 14-20 Jul 1944 |
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Battleship USS Tennessee bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 20 or 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 1D paint scheme; only Tennessee was painted this way. | Cruiser USS St Louis bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 2C paint scheme; only St Louis and Honolulu were painted this way. | Bernard Montgomery showing Winston Churchill a map held by Gen GG Symonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 Jul 1944. Behind Churchill is LGen Miles Dempsey. | Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of Saint-LĂ´, France, circa Jul-Aug 1944 |
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Alaska during shakedown, off the US east coast, Aug 1944 | Alaska maneuvered in front of Missouri during their shakedown cruises, circa Aug 1944 | Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944 | Battleship Missouri firing a salvo during her shakedown period, Aug 1944 |
2,196 items in this album on 110 pages.