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English: 37 U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas A-20 Havoc (33 A-20G, 4 A-20J) of the 416th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force, strike the German gun positions at Pointe du Hoc, France, 25 April 1944. [1]
Date 25 April 1944
Source U.S. Army Air Forces photo [2] in Gordon A. Harrison: United States Army in World War II: European Theater of Operations - Cross-Channel Attack, Washington D.C. (USA) 1950; Chapter V: Overlord Revised. U.S. Organization and Training for the Assault, January 1944, p. 195; image
Author U.S. Army Air Forces

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