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New Zealand seamen celebrate VE Day
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.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-4273-4
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