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(Army Signal Corps Photo, NARA, SC 320897) Carrying a full equipment, American assault troops move onto Utah Beach on the northern coast of France. Landing craft, in the background, jams the harbor. 6 June 1944. Public Domain.
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Men of a U.S. 9th Air Force ordnance section built this baby tank from German, French, and American Parts. The four-ton vehicle creeps behind hedgerows, dives into craters, or does an about-face with equal ease. (U.S. Air Force Number 54524ac, NARA).
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US Soldiers in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Lynne Attardi, eBay acquisition).
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A V-1 falls onto London. This one made it through air defenses in daylight. Public Domain.
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The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) returns to San Francisco, on 12 December 1942, following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-13 November 1942. She was en route to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. (Public Domain).
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Sailors play pickup games of baseball in the ballfield area on Mog Mog. (U.S. Navy photo, NAID 80-G-408207).
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Sam Snead in his Navy uniform. (Photo courtesy of Lynne Attardi) Other famous players who enlisted during this time were: Hogan, Bog Jones, Horton Smith (Army Air Corps); Lloyd Mangrum, Ed “Porky” Oliver, Jim Turnesa (Army); Jimmy Demaret, Jack Fleck, Sam Snead (Navy).
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US 44th Infantry Division troops fighting at Mannheim, Germany in 1945. (Public Domain).
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A GI machine gun team (2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry) with an M1919 Browning against the Nazis army in the streets of Aachen, Germany, 15 October 1944. (Public Domain).
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Seabees of the 111th Naval Construction Battalion unloading a Rhino Ferry on a Normandy beach, June 6, 1944. (NARA).
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Dental examiners in the field (NCP 1608), National Museum of Health and Medicine (Public Domain).

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