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View of the USS Intrepid flight deck looking aft down the catwalk from the No. 4 5-inch gun mount, 1944-45. Note the arresting cables across the flight deck. Note also the anti-aircraft bursts on the horizon.	WAVES Seaman 2nd Class Mary Swamberger and Seaman 2nd Class Dorothy Gasperi rolling a snowball at the Yeoman Training School, Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, 1944	Young Germans volunteering for military service, Germany, Nov 1944	A Royal Air Force pilot explaining the sighting mechanism of a Spitfire fighter to Former Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, Darwin, Australia, 1 Nov 1944

Cruiser USS Houston moored alongside repair ship USS Hector in Ulithi Lagoon, Caroline Islands, 1 Nov 1944. Houston was getting repairs after two torpedo hits on 14 and 16 Oct 1944 off Formosa (Taiwan).	LCT 952 launching DUKWs full of British Royal Marine commandos, Westkapelle beach, Walcheren Island, the Netherlands, 1 Nov 1944	Lord Gort taking his position as the High Commission of the British Mandate of Palestine, 1 Nov 1944	LVT Buffalo amphibians during the invasion of Walcheren Island, the Netherlands, 1 Nov 1944

Machine gunners of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, firing the Vickers machine gun in support of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers between Meijel and Liessel, Netherlands, 1 Nov 1944.	United States Navy diagram of the damage inflicted upon Fletcher-class destroyer USS Abner Read following a special attack by a Japanese airplane in Leyte Gulf, Philippines on 1 Nov 1944 that sank the ship.	USS Concord underway off Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States, 1 Nov 1944	QF 3.7 inch mountain howitzer of 158th Field Artillery Regiment, UK 36th Infantry Division, south of Mawlu, Burma, 3 Nov 1944

African-American US Navy sailors STM1/c Thomas L. Crenshaw (looking at photos) and his bunkmate (writing letter) aboard USS Ticonderoga, off Philippine Islands, 4 Nov 1944	Enlisted crewmen of carrier Ticonderoga being briefed in their ready room prior to an air strike on Manila Bay, Philippine Islands in the following morning, 4 Nov 1944	US Army anti-tank infantry searching for the position of a German machine gun that had fired on their vehicle, the Netherlands, 4 Nov 1944	A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 1 of 3.

A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 2 of 3.	A Japanese special attack A6M aircraft crashing close aboard the starboard side of the carrier Ticonderoga off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. Photo 3 of 3.	A Mitsubishi A6M Zero special attack aircraft diving on the carrier Lexington (Essex-class) off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. This plane struck the carrier directly outboard of the secondary conn causing moderate damage	American troops surrounded by German troops receiving D-ration chocolate bars and halazone water-purification tablets inside 105mm shells fired from howitzers, Belmont sector, France, 5 Nov 1944