War

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  ‘Come on, shtop pushin!’ — American postcard from the Second World War (1943) showing Stalin pushing Hitler down the toilet.

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  US Marine contingent on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) 1945. Nine of these men survived the sinking of the cruiser in July 1945.

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  This is the last known picture of Gauleiter Karl Hanke. This was taken on May 3, 1945, few days before the surrender of Fortress Breslau to the Soviets, when Hanke addressed his staff standing on a supply crate, urging them to continue the fighting. Note that he is no longer wearing a Nazi uniform.

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  Wehrmacht soldier holding a Panzerschreck on the Western front. Oct 27 1944

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  German soldiers wait in their trenches before an attack, Soviet Union, 1941-43

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  “March 16, we choose” — Pro-Russian annexation poster in Crimea depicting the rest of Ukraine as Nazis ahead of the Crimean status referendum (2014)

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  A Soviet POW found hiding three years after the end of WWII

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  A group of U.S. Marines, some wearing trophy Japanese gear, pose in front of a pile of dead Japanese soldiers following the bloody Battle of Tarawa. November 1943.

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  4th Canadian Armoured Division Sherman tanks lined up awaiting the order to proceed with the infantry to clear German paratroopers from the town ahead of them, 11 April 1945.

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  Union soldier Albert Dixon he was born Dec 29 1843 in Jefferson county ny he was killed in action at the battle of Gettysburg at the age of 19

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  My grandfather Felix, age 16 with his pet crow in Charlottesville, Virginia 1937. That year he would lie about his age to join the service and later be part of the Allied invasion at Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944.

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  American soldiers fighting near Monte Cassino, Italy 1944

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  20 years old Jocelyne Khoueiry, a Maronite Christian, defending a building in Beirut against Palestinian fighters during the Lebanese Civil War (Mai, 1976)

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  A soldier from the 1st Polish Armoured Division letting a Dutch girl ride on his BSA M20 motorcycle during the liberation of Breda, The Netherlands. October 1944

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  French civilians made a memorial for an American soldier who died liberating France from Nazis. Carentan, France. June 17, 1944.

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  Six Polish prisoners immediately before their public execution. Nazi-Occupied Bydgoszcz, September 9, 1939.

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  1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography winner, dead soldiers at a destroyed pillbox following the Battle of Tarawa (Gilbert Islands). 11-Nov-1943. Photo: Frank Filan

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  Iraqi propaganda of a vicious USA grabbing oil and terrorizing the world with bombs. Invasion of Iraq, April 2003.

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  US soldiers taking the beach on Leyte Island, Philippines. 20 October 1944

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  The veteran recalls the battle of 1943, by Dr. Seuss

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