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F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-114 set for take-off from Peleliu, late 1944. Note C-46 Commando.	FM-2 Wildcat in flight, 1943-45. The FM-2 variant is easily recognizable by the slightly taller tail.	Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York City, New York, United States, Nov 1944	General Paul Mueller welcoming Admiral William Halsey to Angaur, Palau Islands, Nov 1944

German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 after belly-landing at the American Orconte Airfield in France, Nov 1944. This plane was flown by USAAF Lt Bruce Carr who made his escape by stealing it from a German airfield in Czechoslovakia.	German paratroopers with Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and MP 40 submachine guns, Bretagne, France, Nov 1944; note destroyed US Sherman M4A3 tank	German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfaust recoilless launchers and Panzerschreck rocket launcher in East Prussia, Germany, Nov 1944	Harriet Ida Pickens being sworn in as WAVES apprentice seamen by Lieutenant Rosamond D. Selle, New York City, New York, United States, Nov 1944

Helldiver aircraft of USS Hancock in flight, Nov 1944	High-level Naval conference in San Francisco in late 1944 including Adm Raymond Spruance, Adm Ernest King, RAdm Charles Cooke, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, VAdm Randall Jacobs, Adm Chester Nimitz, VAdm Aubrey Fitch.	Hungarian civilians and a German SS soldier in Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944; note Panzerfaust	Hungarian troops with a 7.5cm Pak 40 antitank gun, suburb of Budapest, Hungary, Nov 1944

Intrepid in the Philippine Sea, Nov 1944, with F6F Hellcat fighters on her flight deck	Japanese prisoner of war, Guam, Nov 1944	Japanese prisoners of war, Guam, Nov 1944	Japanese-American of Company F, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team standing on guard, France, Nov 1944

Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team firing a round of mortar, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, circa late 1944	Lieutenant May, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey, and Lieutenant Commander William Mailliard at Hollandia, New Guinea, Nov 1944	Line of F4U-1A Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMA-21 at Orote Field, Guam, Marianas, 1944. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft but (obviously) not unheard of.	Major David G. Bellemere with the 455th Bomb Group standing in front of B-24H Liberator 'TePee Time Gal' wearing typical protective clothing, San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy, 1944-45