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Men of Battery C, 7th Battalion, USMC III Amphibious Corps Artillery cleaning the bore of their 155mm Gun M1, Guam, Mariana Islands, 1944	Men of Cannon Company, 9th Infantry, US Army 2nd Infantry Division shelled Brest, France with their howitzer, 1944	Missouri firing full salvo from both forward 16-inch gun turrets during shakedown exercise, Aug 1944; note six super-sonic projectiles at upper right; as seen on page 23 of US Navy War Photographs	Missouri's 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine crew at battle stations atop turret number two during her shakedown, Aug 1944; Alaska in background

ML-20 howitzer from a captured ISU-152 self-propelled gun, Varkaus, Finland, summer 1944	N1K1-J Shiden fighters prepared for flight, circa late 1944, photo 1 of 2	N1K1-J Shiden fighters prepared for flight, circa late 1944, photo 2 of 2	Navy Chaplain Lt Rival Hawkins conducting Sunday services on the USS Missouri’s fantail during the ship’s shakedown cruise in the Trinidad area, Aug 1944. The censored ship at right is the USS Alaska.

P-38 Lightning aircraft of the USAAF 370th Fighter Group, Jul-Dec 1944	P-51 Mustang fighters of the US Army Air Force 375th Fighter Squadron flying in formation, Europe, 7 Jul-9 Aug 1944	P-51D Mustang aircraft 'Tika IV' of the US Army 361st Flight Group, Jul-Dec 1944	P-51D Mustang aircraft in flight, possibly over Europe, 7 Jul-9 Aug 1944

Pokryshkin with pilots of the 16th Guards Fighter Regiment, circa Aug 1944; left to right: Goregljad, Klubov, Bierezkin, Pokryshkin, Trofimov, Pyzikov; note P-39 Airacobra in background	Polish civilians filing through a street in Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944, photo 1 of 2; note Marder II tank destroyer on left	Polish civilians filing through a street in Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944, photo 2 of 2; note Marder II tank destroyer on left	Polish resistance fighter with Blyskawica submachine gun during the Warsaw Uprising, Powisle district, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944

Polish resistance fighters with various small arms at the intersection of Swietokrzyska and Mazowiecka Streets, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944	President Franklin Roosevelt’s dog Fala on the deck of the destroyer USS Cummings as the ship transported the President through Alaska’s Inside Passage, Aug 1944.	PT-396, an American built British Vosper design 70-foot motor torpedo boat during builder trials off New York, Aug 1944. Note that the censors scratched out the radar atop the mast.	Railway station in ruins, Saint-Lô, France, 1944