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SBD Dauntless and F4U-1A Corsair aircraft of US Marine Corps group MAG-22 at Engebi Island, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1944	Sep 1944 aerial photo looking south-southwest showing Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii.	Side and breech view of Japanese Type 38 75 mm field gun, as seen in US War Department publication TM-E 30-480 dated Sep 1944	Side drawing of Japanese Type 38 75 mm field gun, as seen in US War Department publication TM-E 30-480 dated Sep 1944

Sketch of an 80-foot PT-Boat in the set up used for Mediterranean service; note the fewer guns, aft positioning of the torpedoes, and the lack of rocket launchers or depth charge racks compared to Pacific boats.	Spitfire LF VIII of 451 Squadron RAAF with USN blimp K-112 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at French naval air base, Cuers-Pierrefeu, near Toulon, France, Sep 1944.	Squadron Leader J. H. Iremonger (left) and other pilots of No. 486 Squadron RNZAF at Will's Farm at RAF Newchurch, southern England, United Kingdom, Apr-Sep 1944	The carrier Franklin underway in the Pacific, 1944.

Three Canadian Chevrolet CMP 8440CGT Field Artillery Tractors pulling QF 25-pounder howitzers with limbers, probably in the South of France, late 1944.	Three Karl-Gerät self-propelled howitzers preparing to fire at Warsaw, Poland, Aug-Sep 1944; note converted Panzer IV ammunition carrier	Tito inspecting troops on Vis island, Yogoslavia, Sep 1944	United States Army A-20 Havoc on a bombing raid against the oil storage facilities at Boela (now Bula) on Serem Island west of New Guinea in the Dutch East Indies, fall 1944.

United States Navy or Coast Guard beaching crews working around a PBM-5 Mariner on the ramp of an unknown seaplane base in the Atlantic area, 1944-45. Note the unusual squadron insignia on the nose.	US Army African-American aviators crew chief Staff Sergeant Alfred D. Norris and pilot Captain William T. Mattison prepared for a mission with a P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, circa Sep 1944	US Army African-American Staff Sergeant William Accoo, crew chief of a P-51 Mustang aircraft, washed the aircraft he was in charge of, Italy, circa Sep 1944	US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks unloading supplies from US Navy LSTs in Marseille, France, Sep 1944

US Army DUKW landing at Cherbourg, France, 1944	US Army soldiers fighting in the streets of Brest, France during the mop up operations, Sep 1944	US Army troops trying load a Jeep into the side door of a Horsa I glider. A combat load would have backed the Jeep in. The Horsa II nose section was hinged and swung out of the way for straight-in loading.	US Army trucks of the 'Red Ball Express' moving through a regulating point, possibly France, circa mid-1944