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| US Navy airship K-87 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-33 at Outlying Landing Field at Quillayute, Washington, United States, Sep 8, 1944. Photo 2 of 2. | USS ABSD-1 with USS California in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa 8 Sep 1944 |
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| M4 Sherman tank covering the advance of men of US 60th Infantry Regiment, Belgium, 9 Sep 1944 | Men of US Army 2nd Infantry Division advancing into Brest, France under German machine gun fire, 9 Sep 1944 |
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| Strike photo taken from planes flying from USS Essex of the attack on Surigao Harbor in northern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 9 Sep 1944 | A German gun emplacement located near the town of Ste. Marie du Mont near Utah Beach, showing damage inflicted by Allied gunfire during the Normandy invasion; photo taken 10 Sep 1944 |
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| Aerial photo of Tainan, Taiwan, 10 Sep 1944, photo 1 of 2; note grey rectangular region, soon misidentified by US military as Tainan North Airfield, was actually a Japanese Army shooting range | Aerial photo of Tainan, Taiwan, 10 Sep 1944, photo 2 of 2; note grey rectangular region, soon misidentified by US military as Tainan North Airfield, was actually a Japanese Army shooting range |
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| Map showing the plan of attack for US Army 80th Division on the city of Nancy, France, Sep 5-10, 1944. | Oliver P. Smith walking through his Assistant Division Commander quarters on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 1944 |
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| A La-5FN aircraft being serviced on an airfield, Ukraine, 11 Sep 1944 | Alaska underway, 11 Sep 1944 |
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| B-24J of the 38th Bomb Squadron “The Chambermaid” managed to return to Saipan after being heavily damaged over Iwo Jima 11 Sep 1944. All crewmembers survived but all received the Purple Heart. | German 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun and its crew fighting in the streets of Warsaw, Poland during the Warsaw Uprising, 11 Sep 1944; note heavily damaged buildings |
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| German soldiers at Theater Square during the uprising in Warsaw, Poland, 11 Sep 1944; note National Theater in background | MGen Leonard Gerow presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to 1st Lt William J Kehaly of San Francisco, California on 11 Sep 1944 for Lt Kehaly’s actions on D-Day, 6 Jun 1944. |
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| Earl of Athlone, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Mackenzie King, Octagon Conference, Citadelle de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 12 Sep 1944 | Governor General of Canada and Earl of Athlone Alexander Cambridge, US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at the Quebec Conference, Canada, 12 Sep 1944 |
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| Telegraph Cottage in Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom, 12 Sep 1944. This was Eisenhower’s residence while in England. It was destroyed by fire in 1987 and not rebuilt. | British soldier examining a Jagdpanther S.P. Tank Destroyer knocked out by a M4 Sherman tank near Gheel, Belgium, 13 Sep 1944. |
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