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An oft used photo, but one of my favorites.
No caption needed really but I'll put it up anyway:
"General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full victory--nothing else" to paratroopers somewhere in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe"
Source: U.S. Library of Congress

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Caption - "Lt. Virginia N. Justy, 502 1/2 South Ogden St., Los Angeles, Calif., in front of Airdrome status map in ops. room looking at documents at a table in the United States 8th Air Force headquarters operations room, possibly outside London, England."

Source - U.S. Library of Congress

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One heck of a bow wave, must be doing 70 knots...
Either the U.S.S. Florida, Utah, Delaware or North Dakota following either the U.S.S. New York or Texas circa 1915.
Source - U.S. Library of Congress

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Scuola Elementare "Alberto Riva Villasanta" destroyed, 1943.
In this School, recostructed, I attended IVth and Vth Elementary Classes, early '60s.
 
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A "Brigadiere dei Carabinieri" and an "Artificiere del Genio" dispose of two mortar shells M49A2 with 190 g TNT inside and a antitank rifle grenade M9A1, both american made, found at Ragusa, Sicily, 2015.

All the shells were in a bad shape and could have exploded at any moment, if improperly handled.



(source: quotidianodiRagusa)
 
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