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African-American US Coast Guardsman Aught Guttery, Jr., Steward's Mate 1st Class, on a ship off Guam, Mariana Islands, circa mid- or late-1944	Alaska during shakedown, off the US east coast, Aug 1944	Alaska in the Hampton Roads area, Virginia, circa summer or fall 1944	Alaska maneuvered in front of Missouri during their shakedown cruises, circa Aug 1944

Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944	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	American prisoners of war being marched past a German Tiger II heavy tank, 1944	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-24D Liberator bomber 'Little Gramper', Lead Assembly Ship of 491st Bomber Group, US 852nd Bomber Squadron, RAF Metfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, summer 1944	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	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.