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Major General Roy Geiger, Admiral Raymond Spruance, Lieutenant General Holland Smith, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift at Guam, 11 Aug 1944	Polish resistance fighters posing with a captured German 5 cm PaK 38 field gun, Krasinskich Gardens, Warsaw, Poland, 11 Aug 1944

Polish resistance fighters Wlodzimierz Denkowski (with Thompson submachine gun), Lech Zubrzycki, Jan Baginski, and Zygmunt Siennicki (with MP35 submachine gun) of the Kedyw (Directorate of Sabotage) on Stawki Street in Wola district, Warsaw, Poland, circa 11 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

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

Franklin Roosevelt under USS Cummings’ Number 1 5"/38 caliber gun mount addressing a crowd of shipyard workers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 12 Aug 1944.	Map depicting US Army VII Corps advancing into Brittany, France, 1-12 Aug 1944

Nurses of a field hospital who arrived in France via England and Egypt after three years service, 12 Aug 1944	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.

Church services for men of the US 3rd Division on the forecastle of LST-4, en route to the Southern France landings, 13 Aug 1944	LST-286 underway in the Mediterranean Sea during Operation Dragoon, Aug 1944

Map depicting the Allied breakout in Normandy, France, 1-13 Aug 1944	Soldiers and sailors singing hymns during religious services on board LST-4 en route to Southern France, 13 Aug 1944

A French woman welcomed American and French troops, Alençon, Basse-Normandie, France, 14 Aug 1944	American soldiers welcomed by French citizens, 14 Aug 1944

Capitan Cyprian Odorkiewicz (second from left) inspecting ammunition for PIAT launcher of Rafalki unit of resistane fighters, Okolnik gardens, Warsaw, Poland, 14 Aug 1944	Church in Coutances, France devastated by Operation Cobra bombing, 14 Aug 1944

German Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun in Warsaw, Poland during the uprising, Aug 1944; note MP 40 submachine gun	Lieutenant General Holland Smith and other officers paying respect to the fallen of US 4th Marine Division, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 14 Aug 1944