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A Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane returns to the USS Massachusetts (BB-59). Note that the ship has made a half circle to provide an area of calm sea for the return of the floatplane, 1944.
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M4 Shermans fan out to fire at German infantry trapped near Gelin, Belgium. The tank closest to the camera is an M4A1(76). 1944.
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In the foreground are the smoldering remains of an American half-track which took a direct hit from German artillery. behind it can be seen an M18 Tank Destroyer. These are identified as belonging to the 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division. November 26, 1944.
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Ground crew working on a P-47D Thunderbolt named "In the Mood". This aircraft was flown by Captain Gerald W. Johnson of the 56th Fighter Group. Photo taken at RAF Halesworth, October 1943.
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An M8 (official designation 75 mm howitzer motor carriage M8) of 3rd Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division moves forward through the shattered railway station at Palenberg, Germany. October 4, 1944.
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Soldiers struggle to extricate an M4 Sherman tank that has become bogged down in the mud following a heavy rainstorm during the Italian Campaign near the town of Minturno. May, 1944.
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) 2500 enlisted men sleep on cots in the carrier's hangar, as she steams from the west coast to Pearl Harbor in mid-September 1943. Note motion picture screen triced up in the overhead and seabags piled by cots and by the hangar sides.
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USS Mississippi (BB-41), escort carriers, and other U.S. ships are shown in the huge anchorage of Manus Island of the Admiralty Islands during World War II, circa September 1944.
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Flak bursts around Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" of the 15th Air Force, en route to bomb enemy installations at Toulon, France. 29 April 1944
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