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Originally Posted by MedicCook
June 4th
1944
The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, leading to the liberation of the city during World War II. |
On the same day, the German submarine U-505, now preserved in Chicago, is captured with her crew by a US Navy "hunter-killer" group off of Africa. This was the first enemy man-o-war captured on the high seas by the United States since the War of 1812.