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‘Full Victory – Nothing else’

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the D-Day. `Full victory-nothing else' to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. (U.S. Army photo)

The man facing Ike is the late Wallace C. Strobel – then a 22 year-old First Lieutenant. Strobel spoke about the interesting circumstances surrounding the photo here.

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