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  Danish troops on bicycle ride towards advancing German units during the invasion of Denmark, 9 April 1940. Less than 20 Germans and 16 Danes would be killed during the 2-hour long invasion of the country.

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  Soviet anti-tank gunners during a battle in the area between Kharkov and Belgorod, 1943. Photo by Ryumkin.

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  Soviet tankmen of the 6th Seperate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment at rest in East Prussia, April 1945.

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  Young German soldier WW2

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  Tanks and mounted troops advance to break up a Bonus Marchers’ camp of veterans protesting lost wages in Washington D.C., July 28, 1932.

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  German soldier laying down aiming his gun, 1940’s

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  Casualties next to Vought F4U Corsairs on the flight deck of USN aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill after being attacked by 2 Japanese kamikazes, May 11th 1945.

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  USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945.

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  On the right in the photo is Ilyin Nikolai Yakovlevich, sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was killed in action on August 4, 1943. He finished with a totally of 494, making him one of the best snipers of WW2.

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  South Vietnamese rebel troops take up positions in the yard of the presidential palace, residence of President Ngo Dinh Diem, in Saigon, South Vietnam, Nov. 1, 1963. Diem and his brother Nhu escaped the coup but were captured in the aftermath of the overthrow. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

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  Maria “Masha” Bruskina, a nurse with the Russian resistance, before her execution by hanging. The placard reads: “We are the partisans who shot German troops”, Minsk, 26 October 1941. She was 17.

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  Jewish mothers walking with children past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire destined for the gas chambers at Auschwitz on May 27th, 1944.

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  North American P-51D Mustang takes off from USS Shangri-La (CV-38) during a test flight on 15 November 1944.

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  USN Seaplane Tender USS Onslow (AVP-48) refueling a Martin PBM Mariner, December 1944.

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  Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.

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  Japanese anti-Vietnam War protesters throw stones at riot police at the occupied Shinjuku station in 1968.

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  ”TOP THAT 10%” – American poster (issued by the United States War Savings Staff) showing a young woman going through her husband’s pants pocket, 1942

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  Artwork in Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities in North Korea. (2011 I think)

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  ”The Hun Cowardly Bully at Work” – Canadian cartoon (artist: Arthur George Racey) showing Hitler punching the Angel of Peace, 1938

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  Anti Japanese propaganda leaflet prepared by allies for distribution to Japanese soldiers, 1944/45

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