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Colonel Oveta Hobby, 1940s	Commanding officer of USS Burrfish William Beckwith Perkins, Jr. (left), 1943-1944	Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States; the woman closest to the camera was identified as Gladys Owens	Convoy of US Army CCKW 2 1/2 ton 6x6 cargo trucks, probably in the United States during training, date unknown

Corvette USS Intensity, formerly the Canadian-built HMS Milfoil, underway, circa mid-1943	Covenanter and Crusader tanks of Polish 1st Armored Division in Britain, 1944	Crawford Market, Bombay, India, 1944	Crew members of USS Burrfish, 1943-1945

Crew members of USS Burrfish, 1943-1945	Crew of B-17G Fortress “I’ll Get By” arrive at their airplane by Jeep ay RAF Horham, Suffolk, England, UK; 1944	Crew of USS Harder, date unknown	Crew of USS Harder, date unknown

Crewman at the periscope of USS Burrfish, 1943-1945	Crewman at the periscope of USS Burrfish, 1943-1945	Crewmen detached the engine from an FM-2 Wildcat that had nosed all the way over on landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.	Crewmen hunker in the catwalks of training aircraft carrier USS Sable during flight operations on Lake Michigan, United States, 1944.

Crews making ready a D4Y-2 Suisei attack bomber, 1943-45, location unknown. The Allied code name for the D4Y was “Judy.”	Curtiss C-46 Commando flying over “The Hump” between China, Northern Burma (now Myanmar), and eastern India, 1944.	Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in flight, 1943-45.	Cutaway view of a proximity fuze for aerial bombs developed by Section E for the United States Army Air Corps. Rather than relying on a battery, this design employs a turbine driven by external blades.