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Japanese reinforcements arriving on Guadalcanal, circa early September 1942; note that Savo Island in background.
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A Soviet T-34-85 tank rolls past a column of German prisoners of war near the city of Berlin, May, 1945
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US Air Force bombers raid 9 oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania in 1944 as part of Operation Tidal Wave, to deny fuel to the Axis forces. The raid however ended in a failure for the Allies, with 53 aircraft shot down, referred to later as Black Sunday.
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Australians of C Company, 2/48 Infantry Battalion, move forward by a Matilda tank of C Squadron, 2/9 Armoured Regiment, in the interior of Tarakan. May 6, 1945.
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Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam from a sealed off warehouse where they were hiding on this date in 1944, following the tip off from a Dutch informer. She would die later at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp where she was deported to.
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A Hawker Hurricane Mark IV of No. 42 Squadron RAF based at Kangla, Manipur, India, piloted by Flying Officer "Chowringhee" Campbell, diving to attack a bridge near a small Burmese settlement on the Tiddim Road. The bombs of the previous aircraft can be seen exploding on the target.
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