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Photo through the cloud cover taken from aircraft from Bombing Squadron VB-14 from the USS Wasp (Essex-class) showing the discovery of a Japanese warship underway, 1944	PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter. Photo taken from PT-364 by Kenny Morris	Royal New Zealand Air Force Walrus aircraft NZ158, Auckland, New Zealand, circa Oct 1944-Aug 1945	Sailor of American battleship New Jersey lowering the breech block of one of the ship's 16-in guns in preparation of loading a shell, Nov 1944

SB2C-4E Helldivers and TBM Avengers of Air Group 87 from the USS Randolph during the carrier’s shakedown cruise in the Trinidad area, Nov 1944.	SBD-6 Dauntless scout bomber of Marine Squadron VMSB-231 in flight over the Pacific, 1944. Note the ASB Radar antenna under the wing and the mission markings indicating 85 bombing missions.	SBD-6 Dauntless scout bomber of Marine Squadron VMSB-231 in flight over the Pacific, 1944. Note the ASB Radar antenna under the wing.	Six British Royal Navy Corsair fighters flying in formation, Nov 1944

TBM-1C Avengers, SB2C Helldivers, and F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 20 are spotted on the forward flight deck of the Fleet Carrier USS Enterprise, Aug-Nov 1944. Note 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns.	Troops of 100th Infantry Battalion of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team on marching toward Verruca Fortress, near Calci, Toscana, Italy, late 1944	US 15th Air Force African-American pilot Captain Wendell Pruitt leaving his ring with his crew chief Staff Sergeant Samuel Jacobs before leaving on a mission in his P-51 Mustang fighter, Nov 1944	US Navy African-American steward's mates drying silverware in the wardroom of carrier USS Ticonderoga, Nov 1944

US Navy pilot Lieutenant J. M. Stubblebine boarding his TBM-3 Avenger torpedo bomber, somewhere in the Pacific aboard USS Ticonderoga, late 1944; note butt of .38 Special revolver and bandolier of 18 cartridges	USS General William Mitchell (AP-114) embarking units of the US 1st Marine Division for returning to the US, Pavuvu, Russell Islands, Solomon Islands, Nov 1944	USS Intrepid as seen through the 5-inch/38 gun sight of another Essex-class carrier, Nov 1944	USS Iowa, probably off Philippine Islands, Nov 1944

USS Pompon in drydock at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, late 1944, photo 1 of 2	USS Pompon in drydock at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, late 1944, photo 2 of 2	USS Reuben James transiting the Panama Canal at the Gaillard Cut (now known as the Culebra Cut), late Oct 1934.	USS Shangri-La underway, Nov 1945; note Camouflage Measure 33, Design 10A; seen in US Navy USS Shangri-La 1944-1946 cruise book