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P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 318th Fighter Group lined up for an inspection at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 15 May 1944. Photo 6 of 8.	P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 318th Fighter Group lined up for an inspection at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 15 May 1944. Photo 7 of 8.	P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 318th Fighter Group lined up for an inspection at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 15 May 1944. Photo 8 of 8.	P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 318th Fighter Group receiving maintenance before an inspection at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 15 May 1944.

Presidential Unit Citation issued to the officers and crew of submarine USS Tinosa for their work on Tinosa’s fourth, fifth, and sixth war patrols.	Submarine tender USS Proteus with submarines Bang, Pintado, and Pilotfish at Midway Atoll, 15 May 1944	Aboard San Jacinto, Lieutenant Commander Albert B. Cahn gave signal to a VT-51 TBM-1C Avenger to take off for an exercise, 16 May 1944	P-38J Lightning “Bambi” of the 338th Fighter Squadron assigned to Capt John L Odegard, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, May 16 1944. Behind P-38’s nose wheel is B-17G Fortress “Chug a Lug IV” with the 535th Bomb Squadron.

P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 318th Fighter Group lined up for an inspection at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 15 May 1944. Photo 3 of 8.	General Joseph Stilwell awarding a medal to a soldier of 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), Myitkyina, Burma, 17 May 1944; note Colonel Charles Hunter, second from left	Map depicting the arrival of Allied H, K, and M forces at Myitkyina, Burma, 17-19 May 1944	Soldiers of the 163rd Infantry Regiment of US 41st Infantry Division on the beach of Wakde, Dutch New Guinea, 18 May 1944

Surabaya under attack, Java, Dutch East Indies, 17 May 1944, photo 1 of 2	Surabaya under attack, Java, Dutch East Indies, 17 May 1944, photo 2 of 2	Surabaya under attack, Java, Dutch East Indies, 17 May 1944, photo 3 of 3	A PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. This aircraft’s hydraulics were shot out by a Japanese gunboat off the Kamchatka Peninsula. Photo 1 of 2

A PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. This aircraft’s hydraulics were shot out by a Japanese gunboat off the Kamchatka Peninsula. Photo 2 of 2	British Eastern Fleet destroyers providing honorary escort to USS Saratoga (foreground) as the US carrier departed Indian Ocean, 18 May 1944	Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and General Harry Foster walking by a Ford GPA amphibious Jeep, England, United Kingdom, 18 May 1944	Commodore Leslie Gehres inspecting a PV-1 Ventura of Bombing Squadron VB-139 after a belly landing on Attu Island, Alaska, 18 May 1944. Note the Marsden Matting runway surface