536 items in this album on 27 pages.
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| British soldier with PIAT at Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, Basse-Normandie, France, 1 Aug 1944 | Damaged Railway near Coutances, Normandy, France, 1 Aug 1944 |
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| Demonstration of a captured German Panzerschreck weapon by an instructor of UK 59th Division, France, 1 Aug 1944 | B-26B Marauder of the 441st Bomb Squadron over Île du Levant, France south of St Tropez on raid to bomb gun installations, Aug 4 1944 |
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| Generals Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and Miles Dempsey with Air-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory in conference on the hood (bonnet) of Montgomery’s Humber Super Snipe staff car, near St. Lô, Normandy, France, 5 Aug 1944. | A column of Kangaroo armored personnel carrier converted from M7 Priest self-propelled artillery vehicles, France, 7 Aug 1944 |
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| A German mechanized column destroyed by British aircraft, near Mortain, France, 7 Aug 1944; note dead German soldier near wrecked SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sharing a relaxing moment with General Bernard Montgomery’s spaniel puppy “Rommel” at Montgomery’s headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Aug 1944. |
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| British PIAT team, Normanie, France, 9 Aug 1944 | A soldier of the US Army looks at a German half-track camouflaged with branches near Le Neufbourg, France, Aug 12 1944. The half-track SdKfz 251 Ausf D, SS 926256 is from the 1.SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Note the soldiers M3 Grease Gun |
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| British Beaufighters of RAF 236 Squadron and RCAF 404 Squadron making a rocket attack on the heavily armed German mine detector ship Sauerland off La Pallice France, 12 Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2 | British Beaufighters of RAF 236 Squadron and RCAF 404 Squadron making a rocket attack on the heavily armed German mine detector ship Sauerland off La Pallice France, 12 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2 |
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| B-24J Liberators of the 565th Bomb Squadron bomb targets in St Malo, France, Aug 13 1944. The aircraft seen here was destroyed the next day when it crash landed and burned at RAF Hethel, Norfolk. | A French woman welcomed American and French troops, Alençon, Basse-Normandie, France, 14 Aug 1944 |
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| British Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder, General Bernard Montgomery, American Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, and Major General Ralph Royce meeting at Montgomery’s headquarters in Blay, Normandy, France, 15 Aug 1944. | Philippe Leclerc in Fleuré-Écouché region, France, circa Aug 1944 |
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| British Secretary of State for War, Sir James Grigg, greeting Eighth Corps senior officers at Corps headquarters in Normandy, France during a tour of the forward areas, 16 Aug 1944. | Ammunition dump explosion in Cherbourg harbor, France, 17 Aug 1944 |
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| Canadian soldiers at the Falaise, France town entrance, 17 Aug 1944 | Lord Louis Mountbatten visiting General Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s mobile headquarters in Blay, Normandy, France, 18 Aug 1944. |
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