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On Tues. 04 Apr 1944 Sergeant John Cark and Staff Sergeant Ford Shaw of.....

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Sergeant John Cark and Staff Sergeant Ford Shaw of E Company, 25th Combat Team, US Army 93rd Division cleaning their rifles alongside the East West Trail, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 4 Apr 1944USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz I main camp at O_wi_cim, Poland taken 4 Apr 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978.B-24D Liberator

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