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Wireless picture showing troops leaving England on June 6 lo'take part in the invasion of France. Top, fully equipped, and each man carrying a large amount .of ammunition, American troops go aboard a landing craft. Below, assault troops receive benediction from an. Army chaplain before leaving an English port. (Evening Post, 17 June 1944)
Colonel Leon W. Johnson, awarded the United States Medal of Honour, equivalent to the British V.C., for gallantry during the famous American raid on the Ploesti oilfields, in Rumania, shows General Devers a decoration on a Liberator which participated in the raid. The bomb lying on its side represents Ploesti, where the bombers flew so low that the bombs were placed, not dropped, on. the target. (Evening Post, 15 February 1944)
High-ranking Soviet officers who visited the Fifth Army in Italy recently, led by Major-General Vasiliev, are seen passing a wounded man who is being brought doivn the Mount Camino track on a stretcher. The battle for the mountain was in full swing at this lime. Later the mountain was captured by Allied forces. (Evening Post, 15 February 1944)
The United Stales Navy's latest aircraft-carrier, U.S.S. Hancock (27,000 tons), in Fore River after its launching at the Bethlehem Steel Company's yards at Quincy, Massachusetts, on January 24. The Hancock, named after the signer of the American Declaration of Independence, ivho was also Governor of Massachusetts, is the third warship to bear the name. (Evening Post, 18 March 1944)