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EVB2948200: Situation Room of the White House, during Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 29, 2012. Attending, clockwise from President Obama: John Brennan; Richard Reed; Chuck Donnell; Asha Tribble; David Agnew; Press Secretary Jay Carney; Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations: Alyssa Mastromonaco; and Chief of Staff Jack Lew / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948351: 1st Div. U.S. Marines were greeted by crowds of Chinese in Tientsin, in Sept. 1945. When Japan surrendered in 1945, the 50,000 Marines of the now unnecessary invasion force were sent to China. Their mission was to accept surrender from Japanese and repatriate them. Also to help the Nationalists (as opposed to Communists) reassert their control over areas vacated by the Japanese / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948406: British troops at action stations ready to provide covering fire for the infantry crossing a canal. Sept. 17-25. Operation Market-Garden planned to capture several bridges in Netherlands, but failed with 15,000 Allied casualties. A BRIDGE TO FAR, was a 1977 film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book about the battle. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948520: Test pilot Paul King in a fur lined leather flying suit and oxygen mask before take off, Oct. 17, 1925. He will fly the NACA Vought VE-7,from Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NACA, was a Federal agency established in 1915, and was the predecessor of NASA / Bridgeman Images