August 15, 1944 - History Education Network

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Two brothers, seated for a family photo in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. Shortly after this photo, the two boys were deported and did not survive the Holocaust (1944)

Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb 6/30/1944

Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945.

My uncle, Walter Jackson, served as a Private First Class in the 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He gave his life during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. He is memorialized outside the courthouse in Gainesville, Florida.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants with a nurse, Alabama 1932, for 40 years the US government secretly withheld Syphilis treatment from 399 Black men to study the disease’s natural progression (600 × 440 pixels)