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Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (center) with other soldiers in the field, 1944, location uncertain.	Medical staff and their WC-54 ambulances waiting for returning B-17 bombers, probably at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1944-45. Note the flare shot from the B-17 indicating wounded personnel on board	Men built sandbag piers at a Leyte beach while two US Coast Guard-manned LSTs opened their cargo bay doors, circa late 1944	Model, Rundstedt, and Krebs studying a map on the Western Front, Nov 1944

New Jersey at sea in the Pacific, circa late 1944 or 1945	New Jersey in a storm, Nov 1944	P-38J Lightning aircraft of 370th Fighter Group, US 485th Fighter Squadron at the former Luftwaffe night fighter base at Florennes, Belgium, Oct-Dec 1944; note wrecked Me 210 aircraft in foreground	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.	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 US 85th Division on Mount Verruca, Italy, 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