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Japanese landing ship No. 149 unloading a Type 3 Ka-Chi amphibious tank, Nasake Island, Kure, Japan, 27 Feb 1944	An American bomb dump in the Marshall Islands, 1944	Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, General Douglas MacArthur, and Colonel Lloyd Labrbas aboard cruiser Phoenix during bombardment of Los Negros Island, 28 Feb 1944; note 40-mm gun mount in background	XB-32 prototype bomber at rest, 28 Feb 1944; note twin tail of the original design, which would be changed for production aircraft

General Douglas MacArthur and his acting aide Colonel Lloyd Lehrabas inspecting the results of the heavy naval bombardment on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 29 Feb 1944	US Navy Captain James Doyle (right) presenting US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (left) the first US flag over Japanese-held territory (Kwajalein), Washington DC, United States, 29 Feb 1944	16 US Army African-American paratrooper trainees in a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, preparing to make 1 of the 5 qualifying jumps, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, Mar 1944	1944 plan for camouflage Measure 33, Design 1a for USS Ranger fleet carrier.

2-inch mortar team in Britain, Mar 1944	A camouflaged crane replacing the PaK 43 gun of a German Hornisse/Nashorn tank destroyer, Italy, Mar 1944	A column of German Hornisse/Nashorn tank destroyers on a road, Vitebsk, Bellorussia, Mar 1944	A factory worker at General Motors’ Pontiac Assembly Plant, converted to wartime production, making adjustments to a Mark XIII aerial torpedo, Pontiac, Michigan, United States, early 1944

A Hornisse/Nashorn tank destroyer amidst a column of German vehicles, Vitebsk, Bellorussia, Mar 1944	A map on the wall of the headquarters of the German 4. Flakdivision based in Germany, spring 1944	Admiral Raymond Spruance with the day’s two honorees, Rear Admiral Robert Giffen who had just received the Legion of Merit and Rear Admiral John Dale Price who had just received the Distinguished Flying Cross, early 1944	Aerial view of Hozan Airfield in Takao (now Fengshan District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan, Mar 1944

Aerial view of Ujitsu sugar plant, Ujitsu (now Wuri), Taiwan, Mar 1944	Aerial view of unidentified industrial facilities, Shinchiku, Taiwan, Mar 1944; post war records tied these facilities to Navy Oil Refinery No. 6 in Takao	American M2 howitzer shelling Manus from Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, Mar 1944	American troops advanced under the cover of M4 Sherman tank 'Lucky Legs II' during mop up operations on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Mar 1944