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US Army African-American soldiers setting up a 155mm howitzer in France, 28 Jun 1944	US Army troops attempted to blow up a German pillbox near Cherbourg, 28 Jun 1944	US Army troops marched German prisoners of war through Cherbourg, 28 Jun 1944	A deck level view of the back of the conning tower of captured German submarine U-505 shortly after arrival at Bermuda, 19 to 29 Jun 1944. Fleet tug USS Abnaki is at left and covered lighter YFN-275 is at right.

Fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior” with the 861st Bomb Squadron explode over Fallersleben, Germany after anti-aircraft hit, Jun 29 1944. Photo taken by Clifford A Stocking, waist gunner on “Green Hornet.”	Japanese searchlight position with a dummy operator, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 29 Jun 1944	Russian children in the Petrozavodsk Concentration Camp at the time of liberation, Petrozavodsk, Russia, 28 Jun 1944	Starboard side view of USS Ticonderoga as she steamed off Puerto Rico toward Trinidad on her shakedown cruise, Jun 29, 1944. Note original length of the flight deck short of the bow, extended to cover bow 2 months later.

A Gooseberry line of block ships off the Normandy beaches, Ouistreham, France, Jun 1944; note sunken British ship Durban, sunken Dutch ship Sumatra, and two active DUKW craft	Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 1 of 2.	Carrier USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations during her shakedown cruise while en route Trinidad, 30 Jun 1944. Note landing F6F Hellcat and two Coast Guard escort boats. Photo 2 of 2.	Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 1 of 2

Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 30 Jul 1944. She is painted in Measure 32, Design 7D. Photo 2 of 2	Finnish Army sergeants Kaarlo Niemelä (leading, with panzerfaust and KP/-31) and Heino Nikulassi (with panzerfaust and small arms on his back) during Battle of Tali-Ihantala, north of Viipuri, Karjala, Finland, 30 Jun 1944; note destroyed Russian T-34 tank in background	German soldier with binoculars in the Flanders region of France or Belgium, Jun 1944; note PzKpfw 35 S 739(f) medium tank in background	Major General J. Lawton Collins described to Lieutenant General Omar Bradley how Cherbourg was taken, circa late Jun or early Jul 1944

Map depicting the Salween Offensive, 11 May-30 Jun 1944	Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944	Portrait of Yukio Seki, 30 Jun 1944	Unfinished German submarine pen at Cherbourg, France, 30 Jun 1944