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C-47 Skytrains of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron loaded with paratroopers on their way for the invasion of southern France, Aug 15 1944	Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over the Sródmiescie district of Warsaw, Poland during the Warsaw Uprising, mid-Aug 1944	Map showing Japanese positions across the southern Pacific, published in US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas Information Bulletin No. 124-44 of 15 Aug 1944	Map showing Japanese positions across the western Pacific, published in US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas Information Bulletin No. 124-44 of 15 Aug 1944

Map showing Japanese positions at the Palau Islands, published in US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas Information Bulletin No. 124-44 of 15 Aug 1944	Philippe Leclerc in Fleuré-Écouché region, France, circa Aug 1944	Strategic map of the United States Navy’s actions during the landings in Southern France, 15 Aug 1944.	Troops of British King's Shropshire Light Infantry regiment resting next to a Sherman tank of British 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, France, 15 Aug 1944

Winston Churchill with the crew of HMS Kimberley in the Mediterranean Sea off southern France, 14-16 Aug 1944	Omaha during southern France landings, Aug 1944; cruiser Philadelphia and SOC Seagull aircraft in foreground, French destroyer and light cruiser in background, and Augusta in background	Ammunition dump explosion in Cherbourg harbor, France, 17 Aug 1944	Canadian soldiers at the Falaise, France town entrance, 17 Aug 1944

Lord Louis Mountbatten visiting General Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery’s mobile headquarters in Blay, Normandy, France, 18 Aug 1944.	Map depicting Operation Bagration, 22 Jun-19 Aug 1944	Simone Segouin fighting in central France, 19 Aug 1944	Air Attack on German submarine U-1229 by Lt(jg) Bernard Sissler flying from USS Bogue, 20 Aug 1944. The submarine was sunk with 18 killed and 41 surviving. Note the raised “Schnorkel” device.

American soldiers and vehicle in Ballon, France, circa 18-20 Aug 1944	American troops posing with a captured Nazi flag and a wrecked German tank, Chambois, France, 20 Aug 1944	Charles de Gaulle spoke at the balcony of Hotel de Ville, Cherbourg, France, 20 Aug 1944	German prisoners of war, Saint-Malo, France, late Aug 1944