PHOTO OF THE WEEK

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The World War II Photo of the Week
for 5 April 2004



First in the ETO ...
   Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, Minnesota waves to photographers as he walks ashore in Northern Ireland on February 8, 1942. Selected at random from the ranks by Major General Russell P. Hartle, he was the first American soldier to set foot on British soil during WW II.

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