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| A Japanese soldier who had just surrendered to the Americans, Saipan, Mariana Islands, circa late Jun or early Jul 1944 | A VT-51 TBM-1C Avenger took off from San Jacinto to attack Guam, 28 Jun 1944 |
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| An US Army colonel and a French civilian in Cherbourg during the playing of the American national anthem, 28 Jun 1944 | Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, UK 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of UK 8th Royal Scots during Operation Epsom, near Caen, France, 28 Jun 1944 |
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| Drayton underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 5 | Drayton underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 5 |
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| Drayton underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Jun 1944, photo 3 of 5 | Drayton underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Jun 1944, photo 4 of 5 |
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| Drayton underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Jun 1944, photo 5 of 5 | LSTs unloading at low tide in the Easy sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2; note Gooseberry breakwater offshore |
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| LSTs unloading at low tide in the Easy sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, 28 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2; note wrecked LCI(L) in the center | Maj General Willis H Hale (front seat) and Vice Admiral John H Hoover tour Aslito Field, Saipan, Marianas (later Isley Field), Jun 28, 1944, ten days after the area was captured from the Japanese. Note P-47 Thunderbolt. |
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| US Army troops attempted to blow up a German pillbox near Cherbourg, 28 Jun 1944 | A deck level view of the back of the conning tower of captured German submarine U-505 shortly after arrival at Bermuda, 19 to 29 Jun 1944. Fleet tug USS Abnaki is at left and covered lighter YFN-275 is at right. |
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| Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior” with the 861st Bomb Squadron explode over Fallersleben, Germany after anti-aircraft hit, Jun 29 1944. Photo taken by Clifford A Stocking, waist gunner on “Green Hornet.” | Japanese searchlight position with a dummy operator, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 29 Jun 1944 |
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| Russian children in the Petrozavodsk Concentration Camp at the time of liberation, Petrozavodsk, Russia, 28 Jun 1944 | Starboard side view of USS Ticonderoga as she steamed off Puerto Rico toward Trinidad on her shakedown cruise, Jun 29, 1944. Note original length of the flight deck short of the bow, extended to cover bow 2 months later. |
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| A Gooseberry line of block ships off the Normandy beaches, Ouistreham, France, Jun 1944; note sunken British ship Durban, sunken Dutch ship Sumatra, and two active DUKW craft | Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 1 of 2. |
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