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On This Day…October 29th.

October 29, 2018 · in News · · 6 · 2.1K

US Coast Guards help a damaged PB2Y Coronado after losing a wing float on landing in Jamaica Bay, New York City, 29 Oct 1943.

Infantry of 51st Highland Division and Sherman tanks near Udenhout, Holland, 29 October 1944.

American troops surrounded by the German Army received chocolate bars and water-purification tablets fired inside 105mm shells fired from howitzers, Belmont sector, France - October 29th, 1944

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6 responses

  1. Never mind the candy...shoot at the Germans surrounding us !

  2. Jamaica bay, that's close to me.

  3. I thought there was something familiar about the chap sitting on number one engine... 1943...mmm

  4. Getting down off that wing could prove interesting!

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