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GIs and and their girls, Hyde Park, London, May 1944...

These pictures, all drawn from the Life Archive, were taken in May 1944, in and around Hyde Park.

D-Day was less than four weeks away.
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Photographs by Frank Scherschel and Ralph Morse.