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US Navy pilot Lt. (jg) John Burns, Radioman Aubrey J. Gill, and their rescued passengers awaiting rescue aboard OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, off Truk, Caroline Islands, 1 May 1944, photo 1 of 2	US Navy pilot Lt. (jg) John Burns, Radioman Aubrey J. Gill, and their rescued passengers awaiting rescue aboard OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, off Truk, Caroline Islands, 1 May 1944, photo 2 of 2	US submarine Tang's machine gun firing upon Lt. (jg) John Burns' OS2U Kingfisher aircraft after all crew and passengers were rescued, off Truk, Caroline Islands, 1 May 1944	An US Coast Guard seaman dead at his battle station aboard USS Menges, which was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, 3 May 1944

Brigadier General Frank Merrill, Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, and Major Louis Williams at Naubumy, Burma, 4 May 1944	Frank Merrill and Joseph Stilwell, Naubumy, Burma, 4 May 1944	Stern view of the carrier Franklin off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 4 May 1944	USS Franklin at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 4 May 1944 shortly after her port side was repainted from Measure 32 Design 6a to Design 3a. Her starboard side remained Design 6a.

Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell and Brigadier General Frank Merrill, Naubumy, Burma, 5 May 1944	PBJ-1 Mitchell bomber of Marine Squadron VMB-413 is hit in the port engine by anti-aircraft fire over Tobera, New Britain 5 May 1944. The aircraft crashed a short time later killing all 6 of the crew.	Shimakaze during her trials, Miyazu Bay, Japan, 5 May 1943	This B-17F Fortress, converted to an armed supply aircraft, had a wheel collapse during an emergency landing at Tadji Field, New Guinea and slid into the bomb dump, May 5, 1944

Loading stores on No. 5 sponson aboard USS Coral Sea, 6 May 1944	Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 1 of 4	Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 2 of 4	Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 3 of 4

Normandy beach defenses, France, 6 May 1944, photo 4 of 4	US Army Signal Corps photographer Private Arthur W. Hedgo with Chinese boy Lee Ting Yow, northern Burma, 6 May 1944	USS Marblehead off New York, New York, United States, 6 May 1944	Normandy beach defenses, France, 7 May 1944