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Happy 4th
Saipan, July 4, 1944
Marine Private First Class Raymond Hubert, shakes a three-day accumulation of sand from his boon docker, while using an unexploded 16 inch naval shell as a resting place.
Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives
And at Yankee Stadium in 1939:
Lou Gehrig gives the most famous speech in baseball history. “I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.” Gehrig would die in less than two years after saying those words from the disease ALS.
Nice Rover:
Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth at the horse races in 1968, but it’s really about the Rover. Photographer unknown.
June 6, 1944
A landing barge approaching the coast of Normandy, France. 6 June 1944
Photo courtesy of the United States Coast Guard
Establishing a foothold on the beaches of France. The Allied Invasion of Europe. 6 June 1944
Photo courtesy of the United States Army
June 5, 1944
The 2nd Battalion U.S. Army Rangers head towards their landing crafts in Weymouth, England on June 5, 1944. The Rangers were tasked with capturing the German heavy coastal defence battery at Pointe du Hoc to the west of Omaha Beach.
Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives
June 4, 1944
A wounded U.S soldier of the 5th Army, receives a gift from a young Italian, after the liberation of Rome. June 4, 1944
Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives
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