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This aircraft is B-24 44-40328 'This Above All'. • It was a 493rd Bomb Group, 863rd Bomb Squadron original aircraft transferred before 6 Jun 1944 (date of 493rd BG's first combat mission) to the 34th Bomb Group, 391st Bomb Squadron. • It was flown on missions of the 34th Bomb Group from 6 June 1944
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A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51190) nicknamed "Ann" of the 34th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: '34 BG, Mount Farm.'
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200 kg of Zimmerit were used on a Tiger, while a Panzer IV required 100 kg. The benzene in the mixture produced intense fires when it met the blowtorch. However. without this complex process, the Zimmerit coating would have taken 8 days to dry.
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Two men from the 363rd Field Artillery Battalion take advantage of an abandoned barber shop chair on Okinawa on June 10, 1945.
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A captured Soviet MBV D-2 armored train. These wagons were built on a pre-existing locomotive chassis powered by diesel engines, meaning they were self-propelled and did not require a locomotive for movement. On top were two turrets, along with a large number of machine gun mounts.
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The ORP Orzeł at sea, early 1940. (Photo Credit: Anonymous – Witold Supiński, Ludwik Błaszczyk / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
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SOUTH PACIFIC. NUNA-NUMA TRAIL, BOUGAINVILLE ON THE ALERT -- This African American soldier of Company E, 25th Regiment, 93rd Division, member of a patrol reconnoitering in Japanese territory squats on alert.
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