War

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  Map from life magazine from February 10, 1916, showing what would happen if the USA didn’t enter the war against Germany

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  My parents were married 81 years ago today during WWII. My Mom had no money for a dress so she borrowed this beautiful gown from her roommate.

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  The daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig after the family committed suicide by ingesting cyanide on 18 April 1945, as American troops were entering the city.

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  A Palestinian woman pleads with an IDF soldier to allow her and her children to cross a checkpoint in Hebron, 31 October, 2001.

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  Moloch of War. Photo of a Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day, 1966.

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  US WW2 poster: This is America.. Smile – man – smile. 1942.

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  Deformed foetuses at Tû Dû Obstetrics Hospital in Vietnam. Specimens frequently associated with the lasting health consequences of Agent Orange, a herbicide used during the Vietnam War. (1998)

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  Men dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers exit a cab on the way to a bicentennial exhibit in New York, February 1976. Photo by Dave Pickoff, Associated Press .

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  A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome. Italy – Rome, late June 1944 (WW2)

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  My Great Grandfather Heinz, November 1942 (Served In The Wehrmacht And Was Captured in 1945 And Sent To A POW Camp In Nebraska

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  Bonde Gaza, a Hungarian musician who survived the Gardelegen massacre where over 1,000 slave laborers were burnt alive, demonstrates to American soldiers how he managed to escape from the barn which the SS had set on fire. Germany, April 14–18, 1945, .

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  Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators await their fate in the post-war scrapyard at Kingman AFB, Arizona, 1946

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  USS Independence (CVA-62) photographed in April 1959, during her shakedown cruise

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  In 1943, a Navajo code talker speaks into his radio while clutching his carbine in his left hand during the battle of Tarawa Nov 1944

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  (2048 x 1638) USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47). USS Ticonderoga guided missile cruiser nicknamed ‘Tico’ in the Suez Canal 22.08.1990

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  North Korean painting (2006) depicting the capture of a US soldier during the Korean War. The US soldier appears to have donned a dress as a disguise.

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  A Boeing MQ-25 Stingray is embarked aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during Fleet Exercise 250. Atlantic Ocean, June 25, 2026

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  Soviet soldiers examine the guillotine in Berlin-Plötzensee Prison, May 1945, photo by Ivan Shagin.

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  GIs of the 5th Division, skirt the newly-taken town of Grevenstein, Germany, to attack a nearby hill which the Germans are using for an observation post. 11 April, 1945. Company K, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. (Photographer: Pfc. Jerome P. Musae, Signal Corps.)

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  Royal Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in preparation for RIMPAC 2026. June 22, 2026

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