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| A Cromwell tank and jeep of 10 PSK, Polish 1st Armored Division passing an abandoned German PaK 43/41 gun during Operation Totalize, France, 8 Aug 1944 | African-American US Army Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. watching a Signal Corps crew erecting poles, France, 8 Aug 1944 | Large cruiser Alaska, photographed from the air, 8 Aug 1944 | US Maritime Service Lt (jg) Stanly Smith posing at war bond rally, Washington DC, with Nat'l Council of Negro Women Asst Exec Secretary Mrs Marion Elliott and Chairwoman Mrs B. L. Derrick, 8 Aug 1944 |
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| USS Blackfin underway, 4 Aug 1944 |
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