Sturmgeschütz III assault guns hold the line as artillery rains down in north Ukraine early 1944 - History Education Network

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A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .

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Sturmgeschütz III assault guns hold the line as artillery rains down in north Ukraine early 1944

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