War

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  Italian prisoners captured during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943

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  Sailors from the Ottoman Navy, gathered on the Brandenburg class pre-dreadnought battleship, Barbaros Hayreddin – on the Aegean Sea, in the First Balkan War, c. 1913.

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  Soldiers at a firearms demonstration. China, 1972. Photo by Horst Faas

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  My grandmother at age 6 in 1945, shortly after the end of WWII, Czechoslovakia.

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  German soldier demonstrating the handling of a Sturmpistole in the anti-tank role, 30 October 1943.

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  Japanese WWII poster

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  German troops assaulting soviet positions in Stalingrad, 1942

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  One of the Sonderkommando photographs: Women on their way to the gas chamber, Auschwitz II, August 1944 (1257 × 814)

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  A soldier with a Panzerfaust from the Panzer Division Hermann Göring smiling to the camera, Russia, 1944.

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  After the Battle of Saipan, Marines found the body of Japanese Lt. General Yoshige Saito in a cave and gave him a funeral with full military honors. Here they prepare to lower his flag-draped coffin into its resting place. 13 July, 1944 (Official USMC Archives photo)

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  A British soldier looks down at the burnt corpse of a German Fallschirmjäger killed during the first stages of Operation Mercury. 20 May 1941, Crete.

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  WW2 Nakajima Kikka in late 1945, 1st Japanese turbojet aircraft. Interestingly it was a IJN plane, although for pure metropolitan defense, the IJN had no operational carriers and barely experienced pilots. Still envisioned foldable wings (to hide in caves) and only 1 prototype flew on 7-Aug-1945

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  Bernhard Sindberg posing with Chinese soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937

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  Soviet soldier alongside his comrade in Afghanistan (1980s)

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  Question about this famous photo from the invasion of Algeria

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  An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk Libya. 17 February 1942.

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  German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper embarking troops for the invasion of Norway, April 6th 1940

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  “Thank you Kiwis for defending our man rights.”, Guy Body, cartoon relating to the War in Afghanistan and New Zealand involvement, 2009.

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  A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941

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  US M1911 struck by a bullet from a Japanese MG during the Battle of Okinawa

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