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US combat engineers of the Ninth Army pull a raft to the water’s edge of the Roer River signalling the start of Operation Grenade - 23rd Feb 1945. The operation signalled the Allied invasion of Germany from the west

The nose of Fertile Myrtle 3rd, a B-17F of the 96th Bomb Group. She would be damaged on a mission over Bremen on 16 December 1943 and be abandoned by her crew over Norfolk, England, with all ten of her crew making it to the ground safely.

On June 5, 1944, two members of the ‘Filthy Thirteen’ with the 101st Airborne Division, Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plauda, before jumping into Normandy.

The Filthy Thirteen was the name given to the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. They were ordered to secure or destroy the bridges over the Douve River during the Normandy Invasion of Europe in June 1944. Half were either killed, wounded or captured, but they accomplished their mission.

This unit was best known for the famous photo which appeared in Stars and Stripes, showing two members wearing Indian-style “mohawks” and applying war paint to one another. The inspiration for this came from unit sergeant Jake McNiece, who was part Choctaw.

Ground crew pose with a 36th Fighter Group P-47 between missions over France, 1944