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| Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at Malta aboard USS Quincy, 2 Feb 1945 in advance of the Yalta Conference with Joseph Stalin. With them are their daughters, Anna Boettiger and Sarah Oliver. | Franklin Roosevelt speaking with Harry Hopkins, Saki, Russia, early Feb 1945 |
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| German troops on retreat in the Upper Silesia region, Germany (now Poland), 2 Feb 1945; note SdKfz. 10 half-track vehicles towing 7.5 cm PaK 40 guns | German Volkssturm troops in Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland), 2 Feb 1945; note Kar98k rifles and Panzerfaust |
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| US President Franklin D Roosevelt surveying troops on Malta in Dwight Eisenhower's personal Jeep 'Husky', 2 Feb 1945; note special modification that allowed Roosevelt to sit straight and tall | USS ABSD-1 with USS P. H. Burnett in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 2 Feb 1945 |
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