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Sailor standing watch at a 40mm Bofors gun mount aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944	Sailors on and around the conning tower aboard USS Spot, 1944-1945	Skull and danger sign in combat area, Pelelu, Palau Islands, Oct 1944	Slovakian resistance fighters with a captured German 8.8cm gun, 1944

Soviet T-34-85 tanks eastern Yugoslavia, Sep-Nov 1944	Spare and surplus USAAF aircraft at Bari Airfield, Italy, Oct 1944.	Starboard bow view of large cruiser Guam, circa late 1944	Starboard bow view of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) under way showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944.

Starboard view of USS Blackfin, 1944	Submarine Springer, off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, Oct 1944	TBM-1C Avenger in flight, 1944-45, location unknown.	TBM-1C Avengers with Torpedo Squadron 87 on a training flight from NAS Oceana, Virginia, Sep-Nov, 1944.

Twin mounted 5-inch/38 caliber gun turret aboard an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer. Note expended casings in netting beside the turret.	Two Japanese-American soldiers of the US 442nd Regimental Combat Team in a jeep, accompanied by French guides, Chambois Sector, France, Oct 1944	United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, on the flag bridge of USS Nashville during the Leyte landing operations, Oct 1944.	United States Marine Major Alva B. “Red” Lasswell, one of the Navy’s best cryptanalyst-linguists, relaxing with his pipe in Hawaii, 1944-45. Lasswell decrypted the message leading to the Yamamoto mission in 1943.

US Army DUKW landing on a beach in southern France, 1944, photo 1 of 3	US Army DUKW landing on a beach in southern France, 1944, photo 2 of 3	US Army DUKW landing on a beach in southern France, 1944, photo 3 of 3	US Army M4 Sherman tank fitted with a crane lifting a pre-fabricated bridge tread section in France, mid-late 1944.