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Allied Expeditionary Air Force officers at a conference, Aug 1944; left to right: Heathcote Amery, R. Royce, Sholto Douglas, Arthur Harris, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, F. L. Anderson, James Doolittle, Keith Parks, and Roderick Hill | American M3 Half-track vehicle crossing the Seine River in France, 1944 | American M5A1 Stuart light tanks moving through Avranches, Mache, Basse-Normandie, France, mid- to late-1944 | American naval vessels off Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jul-Aug 1944 |
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Armorers load .50 caliber ammunition into the four Browning M2 machine guns of a P-38 Lightning fighter with the USAAF 1st Fighter Group. 1944 photo probably taken at Salsola Airfield, part of the Foggia group, Italy. | Aug 1944 chart of Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii. This is one of the few charts that also shows the nearby Waieli Gulch airstrip and Kipapa Field, now covered with houses. | B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in New Caledonia, Aug 1944; note markings that showed 118 bombing missions, 20 aircraft destroyed, 7 merchant ships sunk, and 6 combat vessels destroyed | B-24D Liberator bomber 'Little Gramper', Lead Assembly Ship of 491st Bomber Group, US 852nd Bomber Squadron, RAF Metfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, summer 1944 |
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B-25 Mitchell crew of 310th Bomb Group, US 12th Air Force using doughnuts to celebrate its 15,000th sortie, Corsica, France, Aug 1944 | Barracuda aircraft landing on HMS Formidable after attacking Tirpitz, Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944 | Barracuda and Corsair aircraft aboard HMS Formidable in the Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944; note HMS Berwick in background | Battleship Missouri firing a salvo during her shakedown period, Aug 1944 |
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Battleship USS Missouri on her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944. | Bridge watch aboard the USS Missouri during the battleship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944: commanding officer Capt William M Callaghan, Officer of the Deck Lt Morris R Eddy, and Yeoman 1st class Arthur Colton | Bristol Beaufighter Mk X number NE255 / EE-H of Coastal Defence Maritime Patrol No. 404 Squadron at RAF Davidstow Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, mid-Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2. | Bristol Beaufighter Mk X number NE255 / EE-H of Coastal Defence Maritime Patrol No. 404 Squadron at RAF Davidstow Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, mid-Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2. |
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British Horsa Mk II glider after landing, circa 1944; note troops in foreground appeared to be German prisoners | British Rifleman Reg Oates and Sergeant James Woodward with a PIAT anti-tank launcher near Caen, France, 1944 | British soldier with Sten gun on a Soviet-built F-22 USV gun which had recently been captured from German troops, France, 1944 | Captured Japanese weapons, Guam, Jul-Aug 1944 |