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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: 8 Jul 1940 Tea rationing begins in Britain.  More ↓
8 Jul 1941 Jews living under German occupation in Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ordered to wear a Jewish Star.
8 Jul 1942 US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Chester Nimitz orders invasion of Guadalcanal, Solomon islands, to seize a strategic Japanese airfield.
8 Jul 1944 US forces on Saipan mop up after surviving a 15-hour banzai charge, one of the largest ever, defesting over 3000 Japanese soldiers plus wounded and civilians who participated.
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