War

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  A Swedish woman, whose mother had survived Auschwitz, hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag. (1985)

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  A tank crew with the 11th Armored Division next to their M4 tank during the Battle of the Bulge. 1/12/45

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  An American Marine looks at the body of a North Vietnamese killed during Operation Prairie near the DMZ during the Vietnam War, October 1966.

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  Japanese Navy’s electromagnetic railgun. Japan successfully tests ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun at sea.

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  British battleship HMS Rodney, circa 1940

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  Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts

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  Moses Hardy, the last African American WW1 veteran who was the son of ex-slaves. He survived a mustard gas attack in France, being awarded the Victory Medal by the Mississippi National Guard and the French Legion d’honneur (The most prestigious national order of merit) Nov. 4 2005 (394×284)

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  Inside the Japanese Navy Mogami-class frigate 360 degree Combat Information Center.

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  US soldiers playing Xbox in Saddam Hussein’s Palace, 2003

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  Fanatical Japanese ultranationalist, mass murderer, and war criminal Hiroo Onoda finally surrenders. After World War II, he and others murdered up to 30 people in a 29-year terrorist campaign. Onoda would be pardoned for his crimes by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines, 1974) .

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  Indian Navy Visakhapatnam-class destroyer INS Imphal (D68).

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  Ukranian soldiers posing for a photo in Iraq 2003. Ukraine sent one of the largest contingent of soldiers to be part of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’. (640×473)

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  ‘Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you’, Allied flyer dropped over Italy, quoting the ancient Roman gladiatorial greeting and depicting Mussolini as Hitler’s puppet while Italian soldiers march off towards Russia, Libya and death, 1942

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  Wounded French soldiers participating in drills inside the Grand Palais to prepare to return to active duty. (1916)

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  ‘These shameful deeds: your fault!’, US propaganda poster issued in occupied Germany immediately after WWII, meant to confront the population with Nazi atrocities and foster collective guilt as part of the denazification process, 1945

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  Orphaned Child-Soldier Hans Georg Henke after being captured by the allies in 1945.

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  Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof. Fought the ottomans twice in the First Balkan War in Elli (1912) and Lemnos (1913). Today it’s a floating museum ship in Athens.

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  Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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  American M4A1(76)W Sherman medium tanks of the 771st Separate Tank Battalion in Münster. The tower of St. Lambert’s Church is visible in the background.

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  The Sōryū-class submarine are diesel-electric attack submarines. The first boat in the class entered service with the Japanese Navy in 2009.

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