Late-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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A flight of P-51 Mustang aircraft, possibly over Europe, 6 Jun-9 Aug 1944	A US Marine standing at the edge of a cliff on Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1944	A WAAF section officer and her assistant issuing electrically-heated waist coat, 1940-pattern boots, and Irvin sheepskin flying jacket (background) to RAF bomber crewmembers, United Kingdom, Aug 1944	A-20G Havoc of the 312th Bomb Group, the “Roarin’ 20s,” supporting the landings at Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, Jul-Aug 1944. The smoke rising from the water is a downed aircraft with a rescue PBY circling.

Admiral Raymond Spruance, Admiral Ernest King, Admiral Chestaer Nimitz, and Major General Sanderford Jarman at Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944	Aerial view of the bocage country at the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, France, mid- or late-1944	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