FRIENDS FOR A DAY Replicating the billboard behind them, a soldier of the US 1st Army shakes hands with a young Soviet counterpart – but the international camaraderie wasn’t to last
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COMRADES IN ARMS
As US and Soviet soldiers posed forphotos like this, British PM Winston Churchill joined national leaders in making a statement: “We meet in true and victorious comradeship and with inflexible resolve to fulfil our purpose and our duty. Let all march forward upon the foe.”