Sunday, September 24, 1944. Market Garden reaches the Rhine.

Gendarmes of Epinal sneak up on German sniper.

The British took Deume, Netherlands. 30th Corps reached the south bank of the Rhine near Arnhem.  Other elements entered Germany southwest of Nijmegen.

The Italian government reopened the case of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti which had occurred in 1924.

The U-596 was damaged by US aircraft in Salamis Bay and scuttled.

Task Force 38 hit Japanese targets on the Visayan Islands.

Marine color Guard aboard a Coast Guard vessel, burial at sea, September 24, 1924.

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Saturday, September 23, 1944. The Fala Speech.

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