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| Plan view, forward, of Drayton taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 Jun 1944 | USS Ticonderoga off Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, 26 Jun 1944. Two months later, the flight deck would be extended 11-feet to nearly cover the forward 40mm anti-aircraft mounts. |
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| Major General Manton Eddy and another American officer speaking to a captured German officer, Cherbourg, France, 26-27 Jun 1944 | US Army Captain Earl Topley looking at a German soldier who had killed three of his men before his own death, Cherbourg, France, 27 Jun 1944 |
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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 | Generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky accepting surrender from General der Infanterie Friedrich Gollwitzer and Generalleutnant Alfons Hitter, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944 |
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| LSTs unloading at low tide in the Easy sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2; note Gooseberry breakwater offshore | 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 |
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| 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. | Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky accepting surrender from German generals Alfons Hitter and Friedrich Gollwitzer, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky accepting surrender from German generals Alfons Hitter and Friedrich Gollwitzer, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2 | Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky speaking with surrendered German Major General Alfons Hitter, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944 |
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