War

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  SS-Hauptsturmführer of the SS-Brigade “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” hands out sontoquin tablets (a drug for the prevention and treatment of malaria) to soldiers. The photo was presumably taken in Greece 1941

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  Gerald Ford, jumper on left, plays basketball in the forward elevator well of the aircraft carrier USS Monterey in mid-1944.

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  Old Nazis living in the West: “but it was a long time ago and it’s not true!” // Soviet Union // 1989

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  My Grandfather in New Guinea during late WW2 (he would be 109 today 🇺🇸🥳)

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  Soldiers of the Polish 10th mounted riflemen regiment dressed as winged hussars for regiment holiday. Łańcut, Poland, April 1934

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  Italian prisoners captured during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943

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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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