War

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  U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003, photo. Confused front-line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards US positions

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  (2898 x 2348) USS Iowa with newly-equipped SC-1 Seahawk aircraft, 5 Mar 1945

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  Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003

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  French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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  History repeats itself: Hellenic Navy frigate HS Kimon leaves Salamis Naval Base on her way to Cyprus, to enforce the island’s air defence against Iranian threats, 2.476 years after admiral Kimon’s operation against the Persian empire in Cyprus.

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  Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie minutes before their assasination that would ingnite WW1, June 28,1914

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  A US soldier rests in what used to be Saddam’s chair under a painting of Uday playing with a tiger, watched by his parents Saddam and Sajeda, April 2003.

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  Ali Khamenei in trench during Iran-Iraq war (1980s)

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  The ‘A’ quadruple 14-inch mounting of the battleship HMS King George V, under construction in April 1940.

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  Skeletonized corpse of a German soldier outside a trench dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916.

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  Dazed US Soldiers wounded by a hand grenade dropped by a German prisoner (Center, dead on the ground) near Jülich Germany – February 1945

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  A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

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  Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)

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  ‘The If-Hitler-Loses-We’re-Sunk Corporation’—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941

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  The second Type 31 frigate, HMS Active, has rolled out from the build hall in Rosyth

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  Grave of three German soldiers on the Havel River, Berlin, 1946.

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  Adolf Hitler at age 35 after his release from Landsberg Prison. Weimar Republic, December 20, 1924. This photograph was taken shortly after Hitler finished dictating ‘Mein Kampf’ to Rudolf Hess.

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  American Trotskyist cartoon (1938) showing Stalin and Hitler standing on the skulls of their victims.

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  JS Teruzuki (DD-116) in a recent missile exercise utilizing a US Navy test range off Hawaii.

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  Indian soldiers burying fallen Pakistani soldiers according to Islamic rituals after Pakistan refused to accept their bodies, Kargil War, 1999

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