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German women pause in their harvesting to watch the landing of paratroopers of the of 82nd Airborne Division outside Berlin, Germany, August 31, 1945.
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German women pause in their harvesting to watch the landing of paratroopers

Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann

After the closing ceremony of the 82nd Airborne Division's occupation of Berlin, Major General James M. Gavin granted his veterans permission to make a final jump outside Berlin.

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