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‘Never forget that England imposed this war on us’ – Goebbels speaks at the NSDAP district rally in the Berlin Sportpalast, 4 December 1942.

A German soldier with his French girlfriend in the occupied Paris, 1942.

Grim-faced Rangers of the 2nd Battalion prepare to assault Pointe Du Hoc. 60% of them will be dead or wounded in the next 48 hours. It should be noted that this was the first time the 2nd Rangers Battalion had been in combat. They were very well trained but had no combat experience.

Pilot Victor Vizcarra, after being evacuated from a jungle landing site. After ejecting, his flame-engulfed F-105 fighter-bomber passed beneath him as he parachuted and crashed into a mountain. Vietnam, 1966.

Inside a 14-inch turret on the battleship HMS King George V

My grandparents took these of each other in the summer of 1953. She was a high school junior and he was 20 and had just come back from serving in the Korean War. They’ve now been married 70 years.

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