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First Victims of Normandy
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US Navy: Two of the first American victims of the Normandy landing lie on the deck of a Coast Guard ship.p012550
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they werent the first the first were at pegasus bridge were the first plane landed. long story aint gonna explain.
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Hey ben albert. perhaps you would have had a different attitude if YOU were one of 1million allied troops that were to invade Japan. My uncle was in the Phillipines and I'm damn happy they dropped both bombs. He lived to be 86 and I got to know him. You...
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Please correct the typos in the description of this picture and correctly honour the memory of your fallen soldiers. Thank you.
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the jews would have been among the dead besides the bomb was not ready for detonation yet
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this photo is nothing nothing of what happend in hiroshima and nagasaki in the name of vicyory.
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First AMERICAN victims of Noramndy
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This photo needs a better caption---it was terribly translated from french.
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"Sinking LCI(L)-85 comes alongside another ship, off Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944" - photo #26-G-2344 per US Archives. Note included in BACM Research, Paperless Archives, The Library Collection was "The sinking Coast Guard manned USS LCI(L)-85 comes...
"Sinking LCI(L)-85 comes alongside another ship, off Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944" - photo #26-G-2344 per US Archives. Note included in BACM Research, Paperless Archives, The Library Collection was "The sinking Coast Guard manned USS LCI(L)-85 comes alongside another ship to transfer her survivors, after she was hit by German shells off 'Omaha Beach' on 'D-Day', 6 June 1944. Note casualties on deck, including a man on a stretcher (left center) whose face has been obscured by wartime censors. Also note binoculars atop a chart in the LCI(L)'s conning tower (upper right) and life raft (at left) with paddles secured to its side."