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Smoke plume from the burning oiler USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon as seen from the battleship USS South Dakota, 20 Nov 1944. Carriers in the foreground are Bunker Hill and Langley (Independence-class).	Smoke rising from the overturned and burning fleet oiler USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon, 20 Nov 1944 as seen from the carrier Lexington (Essex-class). Ticonderoga is at left and hospital ship Solace is at right.	USS Puffer in Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 20 Nov 1944, photo 1 of 2	USS Puffer in Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 20 Nov 1944, photo 2 of 2

Execution of a French collaborator, Rennes, France, 21 Nov 1944	F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter with Night Fighting Squadron VFN-42 crashed against the island and Number 3 stack of Light Carrier USS Bataan off Hawaii, 21 Nov 1944. Note the array of radio and radar antennae.	USS North Carolina at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 21 Nov 1944	USS North Carolina at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 21 Nov 1944

B-24 Liberators of the 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force flying from Spinazzola, Italy bombing the railroad yards in Salzburg, Austria, 22 Nov 1944. The smoke is from smudge pots lit to obscure the target.	Ruins of a German town, 22 Nov 1944	Portrait of Hiroshi Nemoto, 23 Nov 1944	Actress Marlene Dietrich autographing wounded American Earl E. McFarland's cast, Belgium, 24 Nov 1944

Battleship Massachusetts sailing into Ulithi anchorage in the Caroline Islands, 24 Nov 1944; note autograph of Chester Nimitz	Captain George DeBaun (center) relieving Captain Herbert Taylor (left) as the commanding officer of USS Cowpens, 24 Nov 1944; note Commander Hugh Nieman at right side of photograph	Monterey at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 24 Nov 1944	US airmen reading a bulletin announcing their Saipan, Mariana Islands-based unit's first bombing on Tokyo, Japan, late Nov 1944

US officer pointing at Tokyo, Japan on an enlarged map during a bomber crews briefing, Saipan, Mariana Islands, late Nov 1944	A Japanese D4Y Suisei fighter splashing into the sea after being shot down during an attack on the American fleet as seen from USS Essex, 25 Nov 1944. Note battleship USS South Dakota and US fighter in level flight	A Japanese special attack aircraft exploding upon hitting USS Intrepid in the Pacific Ocean off Philippine Islands, 25 Nov 1944	A special attack aircraft exploding on the flight deck of USS Intrepid as seen from the catwalks, off the Philippine Islands, 25 Nov 1944