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| Browning M1919 machine gun crew of 2nd Battalion, US 26th Infantry in the streets of Aachen, Germany, 15 Oct 1944 | King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944. |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s headquarters in the Netherlands, 15 Oct 1944. | King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery leaving church services in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 15 Oct 1944. |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom knighting General Miles Dempsey, investing him as a Knight Commander in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath at Montgomery’s headquarters at Hamont-Achel, Belgium, 15 Oct 1944. | King George VI of the United Kingdom, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and Montgomery’s fox terrier puppy named “Hitler” at Montgomery’s headquarters in the Netherlands, 15 Oct 1944. |
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| Map depicting the American assault on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 15 Sep-15 Oct 1944 | WAVES personnel putting on leather flight gear in preparation of a flight simulation, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 15 Oct 1943 |
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