War

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  British Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air defense destroyer, HMS Daring (D32), having been fitted with the first of two Phalanx CIWS mounts.

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  Swedish Navy corvette HSwMS Karlstad (K35), 5th ship of the Visby-class (2427×1053)

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  Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They’d changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .

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  An American soldier disarms a German prisoner of war after the Battle of Cherbourg, France, June 1944.

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  Ostensibly still ‘active’, HMS Iron Duke has been stripped of weapons and sensors. The RN is down to five frigates.

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  56 years ago today- these 4 students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by US military forces, as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft. May 4, 1970

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  The British battleship HMS Duke of York heading to sea on the 23 September 1948.

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  German Major Josef Gangl taken by an American photographer on May 4, 1945. The following day, he was killed while shielding former French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud, fighting alongside American soldiers and French prisoners against SS forces.

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  A French Republican Guard gendarme takes aim with a captured German Panzerfaust 60 anti-tank grenade launcher during the battle for Kilstett. Jan 1945

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  “The Unknown Soldier… The Known Soldier…”, USA, 2014

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  British battleship HMS Nelson in the Panama Canal, 23 February 1931

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  Allied troops after the D-Day landings, Normandy, 1944. ,

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  ‘Kombat’ is a heroic photograph of the Soviet political commissar of the 220th Infantry Regiment urging his soldiers to attack on the Eastern Front in Soviet Ukraine, July 12, 1942. The man in the photograph is said to have died minutes after it was taken.

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  (1080 x 1477) Aerial port bow view of the nuclear- powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN 9) and the guided missile destroyer USS Chandler (DDG 996) docked at the naval air station.

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  Barbette armour being installed on the battleship HMS Duke of York

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  Hitler coming out of his bunker, last days of the war, 1945.

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  (1850 x 1239) A starboard bow view of the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN-701/MTS-701) leaving port. In the background is the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9)

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  USS New Jersey near Tuyho, South Vietnam, March, 1969

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  German soldier looking at the body of a beheaded Boxer in 1901

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  After the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945, roughly 900 men went into the water. Only 316 survived. The Navy court-martialed the captain. A 12-year-old kid’s school project got him exonerated 55 years later.

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