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 - History Education Network

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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) .

The fast and heavily armed Yugoslavian destroyer ‘Dubrovnik’

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

French marines (21st RIMa) VBLs during night shooting practice on the flight deck of Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre, operation Corymbe, West Africa, October 25.

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

Categories: 1900s, War

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