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Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 6 of 7; men of APA Sanborn in foreground	Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 7 of 7; men of APA Sanborn in foreground	Destroyer tender Markab with destroyers Longshaw, Preston, Porterfield, and Cassin Young, circa early 1945	Detention cell, Vorkuta Forced Labor Camp, Komi, Russia, circa 1945

Dog at a camp of 613th Field Artillery Battalion, US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, 1945	Douglas A-26 Invader firing an HVAR air-to-surface rocket, date and location unknown.	Downed German aircraft, Italy, 1945	Drancy Concentration Camp, Paris, France, 1940s

Drawings of both Koryu and Kairyu submarines, copied from 'Extracts from Small Battle Units of Foreign Powers, Appendix III: Japanese Midget Submarines and Explosive Motor Boats', page 38	DUKW landing on an island in the Pacific Ocean, 1940s; note splash guards fore and aft	Early CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 long wheel-base chassis truck fitted with a Mobile Dental unit for the 47th Armd Medical Battalion, US 1st Armored Division, probably in Italy, 1944-1945	Early versions of US Army DUKWs entering the water, Europe, 1940s

Eighteen TBM Avengers in flight, 1943-45.	Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-122 traveling at speed, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes in their racks have replaced the heavy steel torpedo tubes allowing for Bofors 40mm gun aft and 37mm cannon forward.	Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-130 at cruising speed as seen from PT-143, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm gun aft, and 37mm cannon forward on PT-130 and Oerlikon 20mm gun in foreground.	Elco 80-foot torpedo boats PT-126 and PT-159 at a floating drydock, 1944-45. Note mottled paint scheme, Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm guns aft, and 37mm cannon forward.

Elefant tank destroyers, circa 1940s	Ernie Pyle interviewing combat photographers, Guam, 1945	Ernie Pyle, circa 1945	Experimental P-38H Lightning aircraft, date unknown