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| Alaska fired her 5-inch gun during gunnery practice, 5 Feb 1945 | F4U-1D Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-511 aboard USS Block Island, 5 Feb 1945 | Harry Hopkins, Steve Early, and Chip Bohlen at Livadia Palace, Krym, Russia, Feb 1945 | Troops of Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front fighting in Budapest, Hungary, 5 Feb 1945 |
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| Two French soldiers giving African-American soldiers candy, Rouffach, France, 5 Feb 1945 |
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