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U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph
RAF Greenham Common Airfield, 1944: General Dwight D
RAF Greenham Common Airfield, 06/06/1944
SC 421508Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4696RG 111
Original caption
General Dwight D. Hisenhower given the order of the day. "full victory - nothing else", to paratroopers somewhere in England just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. England, 5 June 1944.
- Date
- 06/06/1944
- Place
- RAF Greenham Common Airfield · approximate position
- Photographer
- Moore
- SC number
- 421508
- Field number
- ETO-HQ-44-4696
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs
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