War

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  US soldiers play a game of darts during their free time in England, awaiting D-Day, June 1944.

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  A German soldier says farewell to his son before leaving for the front, c. 1940

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  British soldier receiving painful injection from a nurse along the Russian front

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  The girls boldly sit on the tractor and give the soldiers a confident order: – Beat the fascists boldly and skillfully. And we will replace you. USSR 1941

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  French, Polish, and Norwegian troops search German prisoners captured near Narvik, April 1940

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  Monument to fallen soldiers on the Mound of Glory in Nova Odessa, Ukrainian SSR. 1980s

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  Quadruple 14-inch (356 mm) turret of the battleship HMS King George V under construction. April 1940

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  WW2 South African fighter pilot ace (with 35 nazi aircraft kills), Adolph ‘Sailor’ Malan, being carried by fellow veterans to one of the earliest major anti-apartheid protests. ~1952, South Africa.

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  Dr Norman Bethune operating on an injured soldier in the Songyan Kou model ward, Wutai, date approximately 1938-1939, photographed by Sha Fei

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  German prisoners of war support wounded American soldiers near Colmar, France, February 4, 1945.

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  During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina.

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  A dead German soldier on the ground as Allied troops shattered the Gustav Line and took over Cassino in Italy, 1944.

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  Marilyn Monroe on M29 Pershing tank in Korean war 1954

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  Goebbels, after his appointment to chief representative for the total war with soldiers from the Volksturm in Lauban, Silesia. He is greeted by 16 year-old Willi Hübner, 9-3-1945.

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  Waffen SS soldier posed over looking the city.

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  Irish soldiers preforming a stop and search. c.1940

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  One soldier yanks the teeth from a Korean woman, 1950-1970s

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  A G.I of the 2nd Armored Division poses with some war trophies in a city near the Siegfried Line, Germany, April 1945.

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  Racist propaganda of nazi regime, German magazine from early 1940s

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  Youngster of the Hitlerjugend outside the monastery walls of Ardenne Abbey in July 1944. He is carrying an MG-42 configured as a light support weapon. American G.I.s called the MG-42 “Hitler’s buzz saw” because of the way it cut down troops in swaths.

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