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Battleship USS Missouri on her Atlantic shakedown cruise, August 1944. No photo credit available.

 

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US Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann preparing to hold religious service for US Marines on Saipan, Mariana Islands, 24 June 1944. Note wrecked Type 95 Ha-Go light tank used as altar. No photo credit available.

 

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HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, Egypt, 14 July 1944. No photo credit available .

 

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Commissioning of USS Yorktown (CV-10) on 15 April 1943. No photo credit available.

 

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War Correspondent Ernie Pyle taking a break with troops in northern France, 18 June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

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German paratroopers in Tunisia examine a captured Thompson M1928 / M1 machine-gun, 1943. No photo credit available.

 

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Gurkhas advance through a smokescreen up a steep slope in Tunisia, 16 March 1943. No photo credit available.

 

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A model of a P51 in a wind tunnel.

 

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US Cpt. Walsh, a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, strafes an ammunition truck in Normandy, France, and then disappears into the explosion. He flew through safely, and returned to his base. Photo from gun camera of wingman Lt. Whitman, June 1944. No photo credit available.

 

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View of the flight deck of Lexington-class aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) near the Solomon Islands in November, 1943. No photo credit available.

 

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Gurkhas advance through a smokescreen up a steep slope in Tunisia, 16 March 1943. No photo credit available.

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Look at the knife he is carrying.

 

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P-47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers with belly fuel tanks en route to an attack in Italy's Northern Apennine Mountains, April 1945.

 

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75 years ago today. June 28 1945. B-24M-30-FO 44-51928, the very last of 18,482 B-24 Liberator bombers to be built, is rolled out at Ford's Willow Run plant in Michigan.

 

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Congress hears General Eisenhower in Washington, D. C., June 1945

 

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The Gurkha 'knife' is known as a Kukri, and is a truly fearsome and extremely sharp weapon. In Gurkha tradition, once the Kukri has been taken from its scabbard, it has to draw blood.

 

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french schneider 90mm aa gun model 1939