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After being abandoned by her crew, an American boarding party comes alongside the damaged German U-505 off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944. Destroyer Escort USS Chatelain circles the capture.	Boarding party from USS Pillsbury working to secure a tow line to U-505’s bow in the western Atlantic, 4 Jun 1944. Note the large United States flag flying from the submarine’s periscope.

Boarding party working on the captured U-505’s bow in the western Atlantic as the carrier USS Guadalcanal approaches to take the submarine in tow, 4 Jun 1944.	Captured German crewmen from U-505 climbing a Jacob’s ladder from a whaleboat to come aboard USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), after their rescue from the Atlantic, 4 Jun 1944.

Destroyer Escort USS Pillsbury alongside the captured U-505 off the West African coast, 4 Jun 1944	Finnish StuG III assault guns on parade on the occasion of the birthday of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Enso, Finland (now Svetogorsk, Russia), 4 Jun 1944

Major General R. N. Gale of UK 6th Airborne Division talking to troops of 5th Parachute Brigade, Royal Air Force Harwell, Berkshire, England, UK, 4 or 5 Jun 1944	Map of Allied advance toward Rome, Italy, 31 May-4 Jun 1944

US infantry running past a burning tank, Rome, Italy, 4 Jun 1944	US troops marching into Rome, Italy, 4 Jun 1944

USS Pillsbury crew members who were the first party to board the German submarine U-505 after being abandoned by her crew, eastern Atlantic, 4 Jun 1944.	Allied landing ships sailing for the invasion beaches at Normandy, France, 5 Jun 1944

American tank destroyers at the Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Jun 1944	American troops in Rome, circa Jun 1944; note the 'Rome Area Command' building on left and Victor Emmanuel II Monument in background

B-24 Liberator “Memories” of the 465th Bomb Group over Ferrara, Italy Jun 5 1944.	Eisenhower speaking to Easy Company men of the 502d PIR of the US 101st Airborne Division, RAF Greenham Common, Newbury England, 5 Jun 1944

Four stick commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, UK 6th Airborne Division synchronizing watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle aircarft of No. 38 Group RAF, RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 5 Jun 1944 at about 2300 hours	General Dwight Eisenhower speaking to airborne troops, England, United Kingdom, 5 Jun 1944; note Major General Ray Barker in background

US Army soldiers march past the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, shortly after the German forces departed, Jun 5 1944.	US troops waiting on a pier in England, United Kingdom, 5 Jun 1944