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80-G-257464: Invasion of Southern France, Brest, August-September 1944

80-G-257464: Invasion of Southern France, Brest, August-September 1944. A memorial plaque on front of German Head Quarters in captured port of Brest, France, is the only evidence that building was once used by the French Navy, before 1940, 27 September 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/10/28).
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Caption: Invasion of Southern France, Brest, August-September 1944. A memorial plaque on front of German Head Quarters in captured port of Brest, France, is the only evidence that building was once used by the French Navy, before 1940, 27 September 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/10/28).
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