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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

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-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.	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.	British Horsa Mk II glider after landing, date unknown; 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	Carl Spaatz, George Patton, James Doolittle, Hoyt Vandenberg, and Otto Weyland in France, 1944