79 items in this album on 4 pages.
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| German DFS 230 C-1 glider being destroyed after use at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 7 of 7 | German DFS 230 C-1 gliders at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 4 |
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| German DFS 230 C-1 gliders at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 4 | German DFS 230 C-1 gliders at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 3 of 4 |
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| German DFS 230 C-1 gliders at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 4 of 4; note Hotel Campo Imperatore in background | German glider trooper posing with a FG 42 rifle before a DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| German glider trooper with K98 rifle near a landed DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 | German glider troops gathering near DFS 230 C-1 gliders, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| German glider troops operating a radio during Operation Eiche, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943; note wing of a landed DFS 230 glider in background | German glider troops running out of a landed DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| German glider troops standing before a DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 | German troops at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2 | Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Intentionally destroyed German DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 3 | Intentionally destroyed German DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 3 |
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| Intentionally destroyed German DFS 230 C-1 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 3 of 3 | Major Harald-Otto Mors shaking hands with Georg von Berlepsch, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 |
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| Otto Skorzeny escorting Benito Mussolini to the aircraft which would extricate him from the Hotel Campo Imperatore in Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943 | Otto Skorzeny, Harald Mors, and Benito Mussolini in front of Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 4 |
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