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New Zealand seamen celebrate VE Day

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New Zealand seamen celebrate victory in London in 1945. They are some of the 4700 New Zealanders who were attached to the Royal Navy on D-Day. Many of them were on board the ships that carried the invasion force to Normandy and supported it with naval gunfire.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-0813-04
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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New Zealand seamen celebrate VE Day, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/new-zealand-seamen-celebrate-ve-day, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated


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