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Today in WW II: 16 May 1940 US Pres. Roosevelt asks Congress for funding to build 50,000 airplanes per year, a startling undertaking at the time.  More ↓
16 May 1943 Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron [The Dambusters] destroyed the Möhne and Eder dams on the Ruhr, causing catastrophic flooding [Operation Chastise, 16–17 May].
16 May 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends with liquidation of the poorly equipped Jewish resistance by German Troop.
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A CCKW cargo truck stands by during training with portable flamethrowers at the Munroe Impact Area, Fort Bragg, NC, 5 June 1951.
Soldiers of the 3/22nd Infantry, ride on an M10 Tank Destroyer (3-inch GMC) of the 801st TD Bn., near Mabompre, Belgium, 8 September 1944.
US Seventh Army M10 Tank Destroyer crossing the Rhine RIver on a pontoon bridge near Worms, Germany, circa 26 March 1945.
M880 1-1/4-ton CUCV truck is driven through a brackish stream for testing at Venado Beach, Army Tropic Test Center, Panama Canal Zone, Aug 1984
Lt-Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar, commander of the 1st Canadian Army, driving a jeep accompanied by Brigadier D.G. Cunningham commander of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Inf. Div. and the chief of staff of the brigade, N.R. Kingsmill, in Normandy, France, circa July 1944.
Soldiers from the 65th Engineers repair a bypass on the road to Chonju, Korea, 27 September 1950.

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