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American Marines posing with a collection of Japanese skulls, Pacific Theater, WW2. Trophy-taking was so widespread that by 1944, declaring bones at Hawaii customs had become routine procedure. (600×453)

The United States Navy’s Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Diego became one of the largest “Mothball Fleets” after World War II.

A section of the ossuary at Douaumont, France, containing the unidentified remains of over 130,000 soldiers killed at the battle of Verdun, photographed in 1964. The remains include soldiers from both sides of the conflict (1920×1240)

File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937.

The gold-encrusted hilt of the Marengo Sword carried by Napoléon Bonaparte, manufactured in Paris c. 1798-1800.