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Happy 100th birthday to comedic legend, Mel Brooks! 🎂
Brooks was a Pvt. with the 1104th Engineer Combat Battalion attached to the 78th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II. 🪖
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In June of 1944, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division enjoy some of their K-rations in the hedgerows of Normandy. 🇺🇸
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In the summer of 1944, an American soldier moves cautiously past a destroyed SdKfz 251 in Normandy, France. 🪖
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In June of 1944, American soldiers make camp within an abandoned German pillbox, using the barrel of the gun to hang their laundry in Cherbourg, France. 🪖
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In 1944, American and German medics together in Avranches, France. 🪖
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81 years ago today, after being wounded in the Battle of Kunishi Ridge, Pfc. Warren Fuhlrodt of the 1st Marine Division is lifted out of an M4 tank on Okinawa. 🪖
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In 1943, a Navajo code talker speaks into his radio while clutching his carbine in his left hand. 🪖
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The final resting place of Easy Company legend, Denver “Bull” Randleman, who passed away 23 years ago today. 🪂
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82 years ago, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division take a moment to rest outside the Cafe J. Philippe in Baudienville, France. 🪖
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“Paratroopers capture the attention of people due to the fact that we jumped out of planes. I wouldn't have traded with the guys in the Pacific for anything. None of them got the recognition we did.”
During the Normandy Campaign, American soldiers move through the Normandy bocage on their way to Coutances, France. 🪖
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In June of 1944, Cpl. David Halberg, armed with his Tommy Gun, looks ready for the next town up for his unit….Cherbourg, France. 🪖
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81 years ago today, a photograph taken of the 96th Infantry Division Cemetery on Okinawa, two days after the battle ended. 🪖
1595 soldiers of the “Deadeye Division” were killed in the 82 day battle. 🪦
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After their 1st combat jump into Normandy, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division gather in St. Marcouf, France near Utah Beach. 🪂
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82 years ago today paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division view an M-5A1 Stuart light tank that was knocked out by the Germans a few miles inland from Utah Beach. 🪖
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The time is always right for a picture of Mighty Mo ⚓️
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128 years since the most decorated Marine of all time was born. Don’t go to bed without wishing Happy birthday to Chesty Puller. 🇺🇸
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German POWs with their American captors in June of 1944. 🪖
From D-Day until Christmas of 1944, German prisoners of war were shipped off to American detention facilities at a rate of 30,000 per month. 🇺🇸
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In June of 1944, Marines of the 2nd Marine Division pose with a captured Japanese twin 25-mm antiaircraft gun Type 96 on the island of Saipan. 🪖
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A Marine inspects a Japanese bunker with his rifle during the fighting on Saipan. 🪖
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Pfc. James Brown of the 87th Infantry Division enjoys his first American beer & pretzels at Camp Oklahoma City, one of the camps set up for redeploying the Army to the South Pacific. 🍺🥨
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Easy Company’s Oregonians, Don Malarkey & Bill Wingett photographed together in 2001. 😎
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81 years ago today, a photograph taken of the 96th Infantry Division Cemetery on Okinawa, two days after the battle ended. 🪖
1595 soldiers of the “Deadeye Division” were killed in the 82 day battle. 🪦
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In June of 1944, Major Carl Thain of the 82nd Airborne Division with his sister, Brownie Thain, in Normandy.
Brownie was with the Army Red Cross Evacuation Hospital near the front lines. After setting up the evac hospital in Normandy, she got an army driver with a jeep to track down her brothers (Captain Harold Thain not pictured) at their camp.
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In June of 1944, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division move out toward their next position in Normandy. 🪖
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“In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.” - General Patton 🪖
He isn’t wrong 😎
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The bronze statue of "Wild Bill" Guarnere at the Delaware County Veterans Memorial in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. 🇺🇸
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82 years ago today, men of the US Navy’s 2nd Beach Battalion take a moment to rest after working hard on the beachhead in Normandy, France. ⚓️
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In June of 1944, 1st Lt. John Reeder of the 101st Airborne Division stands by the road sign indicating the direction to St. Come du Mont in Normandy, France. 🪂
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The John Steele monument in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy. 🪂
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