War

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  ‘Every Canadian MUST fight!’ – WWII Poster – 1942

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  A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements

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  “The Face of a Modern Crusader- with his hair matted and grit and determination stamped all over his face, an American soldier, injured while landing on a beachhead on the northern coast of France, has his hand bandaged by an American medical officer” June 6, 1944.

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  Four principal classes of Russian Navy surface combatants are seen here, from left to right: a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, an Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyer, and an Admiral Gorshkov-class multirole frigate.

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  Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .

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  Final assembly of Jagdpanzer VI ‘Jagdtiger’ at the Nibelungenwerke tank factory in St. Valentin, Lower Austria, 1944

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  My 3x’s great grandmother – Born in upstate New York in 1837 and moved to Michigan as a child in the 1840s, Civil War era photo taken outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan – School teacher who raised 7 relatively successful children

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  Leadship of her class of destroyers, USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4) passes over the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, c. 1959.

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  The Royal Navy in the Cold War – guided missile destroyer HMS Fife – launchers for the Sea Slug missile are visible at the rear of the ship.

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  British carrier HMS Eagle in the mid 50s. On the deck there are de Havilland Sea Venom fighters (foreground), Hawker Sea Hawk fighters (mid) and turboprop Westland Wyvern strike aircraft (background). (1211×2048)

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  My real-time 3D model of Iowa in her Gulf War state

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  Japanese soldiers waiting in line outside a ‘comfort station’. Occupied China, late 1930s-early 1940s.

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  In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.

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  American infantrymen, one armed with a Browning Automatic Rifle, advance cautiously down Gereonstrasse while being led by T26E3 Pershing ‘Eagle 7’, likely just moments before a German Panther tank knocked out an M4A1 (76) W on the neighboring Komödienstrasse. Cologne, Germany, March 6th 1945

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  Winston Churchill perched on the remnants of Hitler’s chair in 1945.

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  ‘Alcohol kills more men than war and kills them all dishonorably’ — American anti-alcohol flyer, ca. 1932.

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  ‘We aim to please, you aim too, please.’ An American soldier reads a sign intended for directing U.S. troops to not waste ammunition, by warning of an ammo shortage. Likely somewhere in France, February 20th 1945

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  Palestinian Christians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers while flying a flag bearing the Cross of Jerusalem at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, 2000 (1003×1084)

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  Jan 1941 — My Uncle (Hal Ascherin) and 4 other U.S. Sailors Tear Down Nazi Flag from German Consulate in San Francisco

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  USS Midway (CV-41) underway in the Indian Ocean, June 5, 1993

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