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Japanese Type 96 light machine gun with Type 99 shield; seen in figure 292 of US War Department's publication "Handbook On Japanese Military Forces" dated 1 Oct 1944	Type 97 light machine gun with telescopic sight, magazine, and jacket guard, as seen in Handbook on US War Department Japanese Military Forces (TM-E 30-480), 1 Oct 1944	An aerial photograph of bombs exploding on the Walcheren dyke, Walcheren Island, the Netherlands during a RAF Bomber Command raid, 3 Oct 1944	Equator crossing ceremonies on West Virginia, 4 Oct 1944

Polish resistance fighters Wiesław Chrzanowski (with MP 40 submachine gun) and Jerzy Sikorski at Jasna 19 Street, Warsaw, Poland shortly after the failed Warsaw Uprising, circa 4 Oct 1944	A US Army Jeep preparing to cross the border into Germany, Oct 5 1944.	B-17G bomber returned to Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom after being damaged on bombing mission over Cologne, Germany, 5 Oct 1944	Japanese 120mm dual-purpose gun on hill east of the Orote Peninsula Airfield, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944

Japanese 200mm coastal defense gun at Bangi Point, Agat beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944; note the incomplete revetment	Japanese 25mm anti-aircraft gun in a 13ft revetment or emplacement located on the northern side of the Agana Airfield, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944	Japanese 75mm Type 88 anti-aircraft battery on the old US rifle range near Marine Barracks, Sumay, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944	Japanese narrow gauge railroad locomotive at the Orote Peninsula Airfield, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944

Japanese ready ammunition storage at the base of the revetment for two short 200mm guns at Bangi Point, Asan Beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944	Japanese six-inch battery on Chonito Cliff, Asan beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944	Light cruiser USS St. Louis at San Pedro, California at the conclusion of drydock repairs, 5 Oct 1944. Note Measure 32, Design 2C paint and all main batteries trained to starboard.	Northwestern interior corner of a reinforced concrete Japanese pillbox for a 37mm anti tank gun on Agat Beach, Guam, Mariana Islands, 5 Oct 1944

Stern view of USS Anzio, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 5 Oct 1944	Canadian Calgary Highlanders Sniping Platoon Sergeant Harold A. Marshall posing with his Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk. I rifle, Kapellen, Belgium, 6 Oct 1944	Damaged aircraft on the hangar deck of the USS Independence, 6 Oct 1944 following heavy seas 3 days earlier. Note the hand-tied rope lashings to secure the aircraft. Note also the AIA radar antenna in the damaged radome	San Jacinto rolling heavily and pitching in rough seas while en route to attack Okinawa, 6 Oct 1944; note parked TBM Avenger aircraft of VT-51 on the flight deck