War

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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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  The Telefónica Building, the tallest skyscraper in Europe at the time being targeted by bombs during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

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  British Churchill Crocodile from the 79th Division assisting US soldiers in destroying German bunkers during the battle for the port of Brest… August-September 1944.

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  Two astronauts laugh with Pad Leader Gunther Wendt at Kennedy Space Center a few hours before the launch of Apollo 14. The helmet was a ‘gag gift’ from the astronauts, referring to Wendt’s service in the Luftwaffe during World War 2. January 31, 1971.

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  British soldiers, captured in the Western Desert Campaign, at PG70 transit camp, Monte Urano, Italy. 1943.

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  ”Area of Agreement – ATOMIC WAR COULD DESTROY CIVILIZATION – YOU SAID IT” – American cartoon made by Herbert Block (”The Washington Post”), April 1954

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  Bao ve mua mang dong gop nuoi quan (To protect the crops, to feed the troops) (1968)

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  How she likes them. U.S. Navy 1940’s

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  Heavy cruiser USS Vincennes on her way to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, early Aug 1942. Vincennes was lost within a week. Note modified Measure 12 paint scheme.

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