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Lily Chin holds a photo portrait of her son Vincent in 1983, a year after he was beaten to death in Detroit. Vincent was targeted in a racially motivated hate crime
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.
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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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  • Dead USN sailor, Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941
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