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| African-American US Army ambulance driver Private William A. Reynolds displaying a 0.50-cal machine gun bullet stuck in the windshield of his vehicle after German aircraft strafing, France, 1944 | African-American US Marines Staff Sergeant Timerlate Kirven and Corporal Samuel J. Love, Sr. received Purple Heart medals during the battle for Saipan, Mariana Islands, date unknown |
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| American M4 Sherman tank on Angaur Island in the Palau Group, Sep 1944. | American Paratrooper with M3 knive, M1A1 carbine, and M18 recoilless gun, somewhere in Europe, 1944 |
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| American soldiers with Browning M2HB machine gun in a town in Normandy, France, 1944 | An A-20 Havoc of the 410th Bomb Group overflies a B-17 Fortress of the 381st Bomb Group over the Essex countryside, England, United Kingdom, Apr-Sep 1944 |
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| An African-American US Army personnel loading ammunition for a .50 caliber machine gun in the wing of a P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, Sep 1944 | An US Navy baseball team, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, Sep 1944; note African-American players and white managers |
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| Artur Axmann and Heinz Guderian inspecting Hitler Youth children, Ostpreußen, Germany, Sep 1944 | B-17 Fortresses of the 92nd Bomb Group release their bomb loads in Sep 1944, probably over Magdeburg, Germany. |
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| B-17G Fortress 'Flak Eater' of the 305th Bomb Group undergoing an engine exchange at a repair base in England, United Kingdom, 1944-45. Note Federal C-2 wrecker being used as a portable crane. | B-17G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group are escorted by a P-51B of the 354th Fighter Squadron, Summer-Fall 1944. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| B-17G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group in flight, Summer-Fall 1944. Photo 2 of 2. Far aircraft was named “Sleepy Time Gal.” | British Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory at a squadron briefing in France, Sep 1944 |
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| Commander of the US Army Transportation Corps Colonel C. W. Richmond (center) examining a road map at the 'Red ball' headquarters, Alençon, France, Aug-Nov 1944 | Convoy of Dodge WC54 ambulances leaving the 28th General Hospital, Liège, Belgium, fall 1944 |
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| Covered ramp to waiting hospital ship, Livorno, Italy; Dodge WC54 ambulances bringing patients for evacuation to Naples; fall 1944 | Drawing of the German V2 site at Wizernes, France, Sep 1944 |
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| Elisabeth Gloeden on trial for her involvement in the July Plot, Jul-Nov 1944 | Enlisted personnel of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 in front of the scoreboard for USS Princeton (Independence-class), Western Pacific, late 1944. |
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