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Polish resistance fighter positioning himself on a roof, Evangelic Cemetery, Wola District, Warsaw, Poland, 2 Aug 1944	Wounded Polish resistance fighter being evacuated from the Evangelical Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland, early Aug 1944	Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 1 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade	Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 2 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade

Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 3 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade	Polish barricade at Napoleon Square, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Aug 1944, photo 4 of 4; note captured Jagdpanzer 38(t) tank destroyer as part of barricade	Sergeant Carrol Williford of US 3rd Marine Division in a ruined chapel with his M1 Garand rifle near the Asan beachhead, Guam, Mariana Islands, 3 Aug 1944	Map depicting the US 1st Army's breakout in Normandy, France, 24 Jul-4 Aug 1944

Polish resistance fighters with PIAT anti-tank launchers, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944	Finnish soldiers during Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Karjala, Finland, 5 Aug 1944; note German panzerfaust anti-armor weapon	Generals Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and Miles Dempsey with Air-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory in conference on the hood (bonnet) of Montgomery’s Humber Super Snipe staff car, near St. Lô, Normandy, France, 5 Aug 1944.	Polish resistance fighters Wojciech Omyla, Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, and Tadeusz Milewski in captured German uniforms and Kar98k rifles, Warsaw, Poland, 5 Aug 1944

Wrecked Jagdpanzer 38(t) on the street of Warsaw, Poland, 5 Aug 1944; this vehicle was captured and repaired by Polish fighters, and renamed 'Chwat'; it was later destroyed by Germans during fighting near the main post office	A German mechanized column destroyed by British aircraft, near Mortain, France, 7 Aug 1944; note dead German soldier near wrecked SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sharing a relaxing moment with General Bernard Montgomery’s spaniel puppy “Rommel” at Montgomery’s headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Aug 1944.	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

A Hitler Youth soldier captured by Canadian soldiers, Caen, France, 9 Aug 1944	British PIAT team, Normanie, France, 9 Aug 1944	Canadian troops posing with a captured German flag, near Hautmesnil, France, 10 Aug 1944; note Sten gun and Lee-Enfield rifle	Map of Guam, Mariana Islands and American advances on the island between 21 Jul and 10 Aug 1944