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  Type VIID minelaying sub U-218 leaving Kiel for her 1st patrol in August 1942. She would survive the war and surrender to the Allies in Bergen, Norway, in 1945.

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  IJN aircraft carrier Zuiho seen under attack from a USN TBM Avenger during the Battle of Cape Engaño, 26-Oct-1944. A total of 55 Avengers, 65 Helldivers and 60 Hellcats from Task Force 38 attacked the IJN carrier sinking it that day.

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  German battleship Schleswig-Holstein off Korsør, Denmark, 9 Apr 1940.

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  Soviet soldiers using a captured German PaK 43. 1943

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  Identification of the corpse , 2-6 May 1945. Photo by Morozov

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  Miss Patrocinio Abad, a.k.a. Corazon Noble, a pre-war movie star with a sling talks to Major Herr during the trial of General Yamashita in Manila, 30 Oct 1945. She was a victim of the Manila Massacre. A Japanese Marine stabbed her 10-month-old baby to death and stabbed her nine times with a bayonet

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  A column of German soldiers and equipment stretches beyond the horizon as it marches through the vast Russian landscape. 1941.

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  HMS Exeter sinking south of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 1 Mar 1942

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  Sgt. Rinaldo J. Martini of the C Company, 27th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division takes aim with an M1 rifle while seated on Japanese mortar crates. This photograph was taken after he earned the Silver Star on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945.

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  A U.S. Marine dog handler and his war dog pose for a photo in what used to be a Japanese fighting position on the island of Peleliu in September 1944.

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  Ferdinand heavy tank destroyer assembly line at the Nibelungenwerk Factory in St. Valentin, Austria, 1943

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  Motorcycle patrol by occupying German troops on Jersey, 1941.

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  “The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.

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  Gaza in Ruins during the First World War (1917)

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  Strike photo taken from USS Intrepid aircraft showing severe damage to the runways and the surrounding areas on Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1 Feb 1944.

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  Commonwealth tank crews being instructed on their newly delivered M3 Grant medium tanks. Early 1942, North Africa.

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  Fidel Castro and Agostinho Neto, leader of MPLA, July 1976. Cuba became the most important ally of MPLA in the Angolan civil war, sending up to 350,000 soldiers to fight the UNITA, backed by US and South Africa

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  German troops involved in street fighting in the destroyed streets of Stalingrad in 1943. 80 years ago.

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  “At a rest stop.” Frenchmen liberated by Soviet troops from Nazi camps are returning to their homeland. 1945. Photo by Ryumkin.

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  Destroyed Stalingrad. Soviet soldiers on the background of a destroyed building. 1942. Photo by Ryumkin.

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