The U.S. Navy motor torpedo boat tender USS Silenus (AGP-11) at anchor at Norfolk, Virginia on 19 August 1944. The tank landing ship USS LST-545 is behind [5678 × 4104]

The U.S. Navy motor torpedo boat tender USS Silenus (AGP-11) at anchor at Norfolk, Virginia on 19 August 1944. The tank landing ship USS LST-545 is behind [5678 × 4104]

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Wearing a civilian hat salvaged along the way, a U.S. Army medic amuses both GI's and French civilians as he tries to make himself understood with the aid of a French dictionary in the town of Orléans, France. 19 August 1944

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The U.S. Navy transport USS General J.R. Brooke (AP-132) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 19 August 1944 [1200 × 737]

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A soldier of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (4th Canadian Armoured Division) passing a destroyed Canadian Sherman tank in Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive, France. 19 August 1944 [3295 × 2480]

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Launch of the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Topeka (CL-67) at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts on 19 August 1944 [5710 × 4543]

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Cubs fans and White Sox fans join together in tarps off to chant “Green Bay Sucks!” during the rain delay

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Chartres Cathedral looms in the background as American infantrymen wait to move up. France, August 1944 [5499 × 4456]

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Allied glider pilots find wine and relaxation at a bar in a liberated coastal town during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France. 18 August 1944

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A CBS war correspondent, on stretcher in foreground, receives treatment for injuries received when his press jeep was ran over by a Sherman tank. Victim in background, driver of vehicle, Tom Treanor, of Los Angeles Times was killed in the accident. 18 August 1944 [2771 × 2337]

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U.S. soldiers stop to look at the statue of Joan of Arc in the Place du Martroi after the liberation of Orléans, France. 17 August, 1944 [4023 × 4475]

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The U.S. Navy fleet oiler USS Mattole (AO-17) refuels the destroyer esccort USS Pride (DE-323), USS Newell (DE-322) is in background. 17 August 1944 [5570 × 4142]

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A Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX of No. 242 Squadron RAF taxies to a refuelling point at Calenzana, Corsica, after a cover patrol over the invasion beaches in southern France for Operation Dragoon. 17 August 1944 [2480 × 1669]

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Challenger tank (foreground) and Cromwell tanks (background) of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, passing through Flers, France. 17 August 1944

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