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Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading through the surf under heavy machine gun and shell fire from hidden enemy positions back of the beaches. One of the landing craft is set aflame by an enemy shell. Another shell just misses an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle personnel) and sends up a plume of smoke and water. Allied cruisers come in close to shore to blast the enemy whose positions are relayed by naval spotters advancing with the landing parties

Assault wave, Salerno. Allied troops pour ashore at Salerno, wading th...

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Aircraft warning service. One of the thousands of volunteer spotters who relay information from a secret telephone and radio network to the filters and operations centers

Aircraft warning service. One of the thousands of volunteer spotters w...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aircraft warning service. At the filter center, each of the girl plotters is in charge of a section of the map. She receives all messages from spotters in her area and places a marker, called a "pip" on the spot where the plane has been observed. The pip is moved on at each new report, leaving a trail of arrows across the map to show the plane's direction. After a plane has been reported three times the pip is removed and replaced by a standard

Aircraft warning service. At the filter center, each of the girl plott...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal. "Yard jockeys" or "spotters" drive trucks around the terminal and back them up to the loading platform

Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal. "...

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Somewhere in Central Africa. No, children, that is not one of those model planes you made for spotters to practice on, or aerial gunners to shoot down with BBs. This is the African version, complete with flags, of the Royal Air Force consolidated-built Liberator bomber as adapted for ju-ju dancing. The natives who work at Allied airports in the jungles evolved the idea, which is nothing if not original in the annals of ju-ju

Somewhere in Central Africa. No, children, that is not one of those mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.