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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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Allied troops storm the beaches of #Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay79
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American soldiers on their way to the #Normandy beaches on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay81

ALT A group of soldiers in military uniforms sitting tightly together on a moving boat at sea.

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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

ALT Soldiers in military uniforms sitting closely together in a large boat moving through the water on their way to Omaha Beach during D-Day, 1944.

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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

ALT A historical black and white film scene depicting a military beach landing with soldiers rushing towards the shore as ships and gunfire are visible in the background on D-Day, 1944.

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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 #DDay81
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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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Vienna still has six WW2 flak towers - this one, the “G-Tower”, stands in Augarten. It was built between July 1944 – January 1945. It could deliver thousands of rounds per minute in total, mostly from 20 mm and 37 mm guns. During raids, the complex sheltered up to about 10,000 civilians. #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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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 #DDay77
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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 #DDay75 #DDay75thAnniversary #ThisDay
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Allied troops storm the beaches of #Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay
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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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American General George S. Patton in North Africa, 1943. #History #WWII
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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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Allied troops storm the beaches of #Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay81

ALT A historical black and white film scene depicting a military beach landing with soldiers rushing towards the shore as ships and gunfire are visible in the background on D-Day, 1944.

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Aerial view of Utah Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80
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Pfc George A Guckenberger, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in his foxhole near Bastogne in January, 1945. He was KIA at the age of 22 on January 14, 1945. #History #WWII
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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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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. #PearlHarbor83
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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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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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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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#Canadian soldiers land on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay80
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Mount Fuji photographed through the periscope of Gato-class submarine USS Trigger (SS-237) during a war patrol on April 22, 1943. #History #WWII
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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 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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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning #Reichstag in Berlin, 1945. #History #WWII
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Three U.S. infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, just east of the Belgium-Germany border, in 1944. #History #WWII
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Aerial view of Utah Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay81
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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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A battery of British 114-mm anti-aircraft guns in anticipation for oncoming German bombers near London, 1940. #History #WWII
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Erwin Rommel inspecting the Atlantic Sea Wall installation in France on March 28, 1944. #History #WWII
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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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Remember to thank all of the veterans in your life today! #VeteransDay
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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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German soldiers after a street fight in Novorossiysk, Russia, in 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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German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) inspecting an American Thompson submachine gun somewhere in the Ardennes, 1944. #History #WWII
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17 captured German MG-34 machine guns set up by the Red Army to be used against enemy aircraft somewhere on the Eastern Front. #History #WWII
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U.S. Marine Private Francis Hall and his Doberman war dog on the island of Iwo Jima in March, 1945. #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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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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An American soldier with a German POW near Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944. #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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Thank you. #MemorialDay
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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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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 flamethrower operator from "B" company of the 9th Marines Regiment runs toward Japanese bunkers during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. #History #WWII
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A German POW finally returns to his hometown of Frankfurt only to discover his house bombed and his family no longer there, 1946. #History #WWII
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The #Reichstag in ruins after the Battle of Berlin, 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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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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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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German, Japanese, and Finnish officers photographed during a front-line visit in Uhtua, Finland, on April 5, 1943. #History #WWII
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#Canadian soldiers land on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay81
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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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Paratroopers of the American 101st Airborne Division move through the town of Carentan, France in June, 1944. #History #WWII
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A U.S. Marine with a captured Japanese Type 99 machine gun on Saipan, Mariana Islands, on July 13, 1944. #History #WWII
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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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Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. #History #WWII #DDay #ThisDay
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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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A convoy of M4 Sherman tanks and trucks in the 11th Armored Division crossing the Große Mühl river near Neufelden, Austria, in May, 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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