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PFC Benjamin Ogata of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was Killed in Action in Italy on July 7, 1944. He was only 19 years old. The 442nd was an elite unit composed almost entirely of second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), and it remains the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
Vote As If Your Life Depends On It! 2020 Election, Art by Rob Rogers for Counterpoint
Brian Wells arrested after being forced to rob a bank with a bomb around his neck. He died shortly after this photo, August 28th 2003
Hattie McDaniel. The first person of color to win an Oscar. 1940
If You Are in Favor of Capital Punishment, Push This Button, 1977, Art by Paul Conrad for the Los Angeles Times
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A striking photo of one of the first GIs from the 4th Infantry Division to fall on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944
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