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American soldiers on their way to the #Normandy beaches on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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Photo taken by photojournalist Robert Capa moments after American troops land at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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American soldiers in LCVPs approach Omaha Beach near Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. #DDay79

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This Day in #WWII #History : Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944 (colorization by @marinamaral2 ). #DDay #DDay79

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Photo taken by photojournalist Robert Capa moments after American troops land at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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American soldiers on their way to the #Normandy beaches on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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A photograph of the American assault on Omaha Beach taken by photojournalist Robert Capa on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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This Day in #WWII History: Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944 (colorization by @marinamaral2 ). #DDay #DDay80

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to Easy Company men of the 502d PIR of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division at RAF Greenham Common, England, prior to the #DDay invasion on June 5, 1944. #History #WWII

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A massive crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945. #History #WWII

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Allied troops storm the beaches of #Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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A photograph of the American assault on Omaha Beach taken by photojournalist Robert Capa on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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American soldiers on their way to the Normandy beaches on #DDay on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII

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Men of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, relaxing at Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest ("Kehlsteinhaus" in German) mountain-top retreat above the town of Berchtesgaden, 1945. (Colorization by @PastInColor ). #History #WWII

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American soldiers on their way to the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay #DDay77

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U.S. Army Rangers resting near Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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Photo taken by photojournalist Robert Capa moments after American troops land at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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Combat footage from the Battle of #Berlin , 1945. #History #WWII

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Aerial view of Utah Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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Robert "Smokey" Noody of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne with his M1 Bazooka on the eve of the Normandy landings on June 5, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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#American soldiers on their way to the Normandy beaches on D-Day on June 6, 1944. #DDay #TDIH

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to Easy Company men of the 502d PIR of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division at RAF Greenham Common, England, prior to the #DDay invasion on June 5, 1944. #History #WWII

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Rows of Vought F4U Corsair‘s and Grumman F6F Hellcat’s fresh off the factory line await to be shipped to the Pacific theater of operations, 1944. #History #WWII

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This Day in #WWII #History : On the morning of June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history begins as Allied Forces land on the beaches of Normandy. #DDay #ThisDay

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Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, and other men of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler's private residence at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps on May 8, 1945. #WWII #History #ThisDayInHistory

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Adolf Hitler visits the tomb of Napoleon at Les Invalides in #Paris on June 28, 1940. #History #WWII

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Photo taken by photojournalist Robert Capa moments after American troops land at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

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Colorization by @marinamaral2 : This day in #WWII #History : On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe begins at #Normandy . #DDay

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#Canadian soldiers land on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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LSTs landing vehicles and cargo on a #Normandy beach in June, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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Dogfighting over St Paul's Cathedral in London during the Blitz, 1940. #History #WWII

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London, 1944. #History #WWII

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Aerial view of Utah Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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#American soldiers on their way to the Normandy beaches on #DDay on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay75 #DDay75thAnniversary

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Paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR, "Band of Brothers", in the square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on June 7, 1944. Front, left to right: Forrest Guth, Frank Mellet, David Morris, Daniel West, Floyd Talbert and C.T. Smith. #History #WWII

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The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon" (20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron) posing to duplicate the nose art. All were KIA when the bomber was shot down over Japan in January, 1945. #History #WWII

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A Russian refugee who saved an American soldier from a burning tank is given an American uniform to fight alongside the 3rd Tank Battalion of the 10th Armored Division on March 21, 1945. #History #WWII

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The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944. #History #WWII

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A massive crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945. #History #WWII

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U.S. Army Rangers resting near Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division during a medal ceremony in the city of Carentan, France, in 1944. #History #WWII

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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning #Reichstag in Berlin, 1945. #History #WWII

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Combat footage from the Battle of Berlin, 1945. #History #WWII

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This Day in #WWII #History : On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. #PearlHarbor #PearlHarbor82

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LSTs landing vehicles and cargo on a #Normandy beach in June, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers viewed through a window of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber, 1945. #History #WWII

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Adolf Hitler (second from right) and Albert Speer (right) in front of the 800mm railway gun "Schwerer Gustav", 1943. #History #WWII

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Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay77 #DDay

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Stern view of the #German battleship Bismarck, 1940-1941. #History #WWII

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This Day in #WWII #History : On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. #WWII #History #PearlHarbor #PearlHarbor76

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A massive crowd celebrating the surrender of Germany in Times Square, New York City, on May 7, 1945. #History #WWII

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British troops and American Rangers meet on the Anzio-Rome road in Italy on January 23, 1944 (colorization by Julius Backman Jääskeläinen). #History #WWII

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18-year-old Queen Elizabeth II serving as a mechanic in Auxiliary Territorial Service in England, 1945. #History #WWII

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The surrender of German submarine U-889 to the Royal Canadian Navy near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on May 13, 1945. #History #WWII

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Polish-American USAAF fighter ace Francis S. Gabreski in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt in July, 1944. On the fuselage, 28 victory markings of confirmed aircraft destroyed in air combat. #History #WWII

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Thank you. #MemorialDay

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A U.S. Marine with an M2-2 flamethrower strapped to his back stops to light his pipe during a break in the fighting on the island of Iwo Jima in February, 1945. #History #WWII

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A photograph of the American assault on Omaha Beach taken by photojournalist Robert Capa on June 6, 1944. #WWII #History #DDay

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An American soldier from George S. Patton’s Third Army takes a nap on a bed belonging to German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring after the capture of his lodge on May 3, 1945. #History #WWII

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U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945. #History #WWII

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American soldiers on their way to the #Normandy beaches on the morning of June 6, 1944. #WWII #History #DDay

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Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay #ThisDay

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Commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade, British 2nd Army landing on 'Queen Red' sector of Sword Beach, Normandy, at 0840 on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80

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Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944. #History #WWII

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This Day in #WWII #History : Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944 (colorization by @marinamaral2 ). #DDay

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Captured German Kar98k rifles at Stavanger, Norway, after the surrender of Germany in 1945. #History #WWII

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Rows of American Vought F4U Corsair and Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft fresh off the factory line await to be shipped to the Pacific theater of operations, 1944. #History #WWII

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#Canadian troops guarding captured German troops, Berniers Sur Mer, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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Polish-American USAAF fighter ace Francis S. Gabreski in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt in July, 1944. On the fuselage, 28 victory markings of confirmed aircraft destroyed in air combat. #History #WWII

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An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children on the island of #Okinawa , 1945. #History #WWII

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U.S. Army soldiers Pvt. Henry W. Beyer (left) and Sgt. Abraham Aranoff (right) of “E” Company, 1st Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division pause for cigarettes in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge on January 10, 1945. #History #WWII

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A German soldier runs in a trench in the pouring rain on the Eastern Front, 1943. #History #WWII

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Six U.S. Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. #History #WWII

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Color by @marinamaral2 : Today in #History : On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe begins at #Normandy . #DDay

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One of the Doolittle Raid B-25 bomber crews aboard Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) shortly before the mission in April, 1942. #History #WWII

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This Day In #WWII #History : On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in the Führerbunker in Berlin.

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An American serviceman shares his rations with two children on the island of Okinawa, 1945. #History #WWII

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Lockheed Martin employee Sally Wadsworth working on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning in California, 1944. #History #WWII

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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945. #History #WWII

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Private John L. Drugan and his dog, "Pal", on the island of Okinawa in May, 1945. Pal saved a platoon of Marines from an ambush by alerting his handler of a hidden Japanese machine gun nest. #History #WWII

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Men of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, relaxing at Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest ("Kehlsteinhaus" in German) mountain-top retreat above the town of Berchtesgaden, 1945. (Colorization by @PastInColor ). #History #WWII

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A view down Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row about an hour after the Japanese air attack began on December 7, 1941. #WWII #History #PearlHarbor

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The U.S. Pacific fleet getting ready for battle during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944. #History #WWII

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#British troops in landing craft heading for Sword Beach on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79

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General Patton aboard Northampton-class cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) before Operation Torch (invasion of French North Africa), 1942. #History #WWII

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An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children in Okinawa, 1945. #History #WWII

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Erwin Rommel helps to push his stuck staff car somewhere in North Africa, 1941. #History #WWWII

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A U.S. Marine with an M2-2 flamethrower strapped to his back stops to light his pipe during a break in the fighting on the island of Iwo Jima in February, 1945. #History #WWII

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A Russian survivor of the #Buchenwald concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army identifies a former guard who brutally beat prisoners on April 14, 1945. #History #WWII

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"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" by Joe Rosenthal. Six Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945. #History #WWII