War

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  Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943

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  “We will finish off the Nazi invaders in their den!” USSR, 1944

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  Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.

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  A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.

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  Political cartoon about Russian support of Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil War, 2012

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  Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.

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  Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” (where they “liberated” a collection of 10,000 bottles of liquor, wine, and champagne amassed by Hermann Göring) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.

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  “I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money fer a little routine patrol.” Cartoon of soldiers during WWII, 1939-1945.

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  Nazis cutting off earlocks of a Jewish man, Kraków 1939-1945

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  “Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!” – American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944.

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  15-year-old Hans-Georg Henke breaks down from combat shock, World War Two, 1945.

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  “The Unknown Soldier… The Known Soldier…” 2014

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  Your average PSA during WWII.

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  I found this photograph of a Nazi at a thrift store in New York

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  The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939

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  President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863

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  WW2 German death card for a German cross in gold winner

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  Loading 406 mm shells in the main guns of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson

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  American soldier who was a German POW for three months (April 1945)

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  A female Soviet soldier captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941

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