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‘Let’s protect children from the priest’s claws!’ (USSR, 1962)
Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916.
Spitfires ready for action in 1939.
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)
My GG Grandfather James William Doherty. I was named after him. That’s me he’s holding in 1963. He was born in 1873. He died in 1966.
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  • A caricature of the war in Afghanistan, 2019
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  • A Rhodesian soldier wearing sneakers takes a smoke break during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1970s
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  • Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
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  • Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970
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  • U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s
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  • German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942
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  • Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945
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  • A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914.
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  • Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing a concerned Goebbels inspecting soldiers at the front while holding a propaganda image of a cheery soldier behind his back. Artist: Kukryniksy.
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  • A mother in Chicago offers her children for sale during extreme post-war poverty. USA, 1948.(750 × 600)
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  • Soviet soldiers holding the captured German banners at the Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945
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  • Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300×859)
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  • A marine mourns the loss of a friend during the battle of Okinawa 1945
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  • Wehrmacht troops smile and laugh after handing out cigarettes to a group of Ukrainian children. 1941.
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  • Waffen-SS troops taking a loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in Munich, September 5th, 1938.
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  • American soldiers storm Omaha beach, D-Day, June 6th 1944
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  • Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945.
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  • Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)(900×600)
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  • French soldiers from the 157th Alpine Rifle Regiment bury their comrades in a shell crater in Bouzonville, France. September, 1914.
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  • Actor John Wayne visiting US troops in the Philippines, 1958. The man standing in the doorway in the background of the photo is a young Lee Harvey Oswald. (605×600)
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