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US Navy Gunners Mate 3rd Class Ali Cowden with twin .50 cal. Browning Machine guns on Guided Missile Frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37), Colon, Panama, 10 August 2004
US Navy Gunners Mate 3rd Class Ali Cowden with twin .50 cal. Browning Machine guns on Guided Missile Frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37), Colon, Panama, 10 August 2004.

Today in WW II: 23 Aug 1939 Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia sign a mutual non-aggression pact [Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement] with secret clauses giving the Soviets access to the Baltic states.  More ↓
23 Aug 1944 Following overthrow of dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu, Romania repudiates the Axis and joins the fight against Germany, cooperating with the Soviet Union.
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