War

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  Japanese soldiers waiting in line outside a ‘comfort station’. Occupied China, late 1930s-early 1940s.

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  In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.

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  American infantrymen, one armed with a Browning Automatic Rifle, advance cautiously down Gereonstrasse while being led by T26E3 Pershing ‘Eagle 7’, likely just moments before a German Panther tank knocked out an M4A1 (76) W on the neighboring Komödienstrasse. Cologne, Germany, March 6th 1945

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  Winston Churchill perched on the remnants of Hitler’s chair in 1945.

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  ‘Alcohol kills more men than war and kills them all dishonorably’ — American anti-alcohol flyer, ca. 1932.

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  ‘We aim to please, you aim too, please.’ An American soldier reads a sign intended for directing U.S. troops to not waste ammunition, by warning of an ammo shortage. Likely somewhere in France, February 20th 1945

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  Palestinian Christians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers while flying a flag bearing the Cross of Jerusalem at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, 2000 (1003×1084)

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  Jan 1941 — My Uncle (Hal Ascherin) and 4 other U.S. Sailors Tear Down Nazi Flag from German Consulate in San Francisco

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  USS Midway (CV-41) underway in the Indian Ocean, June 5, 1993

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  American soldier from the 29th Infantry Division armed with a bazooka runs past a knocked out German Hetzer. Aldenhoven ,Germany, 1944

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  Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939.

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  British submarine HMS Artful alongside in Faslane. The boat has not sailed for more than three years, having last left Faslane in mid-2022.

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  Stern view of Courageous-class battlecruiser HMS Furious in 1917, showing one of the ship’s two 18-inch guns.

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  “Gays & Lesbians Against Nazis!” Germany, 1989

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  ‘Please!’ – Japanese leaflet intended for American soldiers, circa 1943.

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  ‘To the German mothers!’, 1920s leaflet by the Reich Federation of Jewish Frontline Soldiers

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  Serbian mobster, warlord, & paramilitary commander Željko Ražnatović, aka ‘Arkan’ holding a baby tiger, 1991. Ražnatović’s unit, the Serb Volunteer Guard, was notorious for its war crimes & he was one of the most feared men in Serbia. He escaped from jail twice & was assassinated in 2000 (3677×2500)

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  Soviet Poster about US Importing Germans After WWII

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  ‘Greater Germany in the future’. Nazi German poster promoting the colonization of Eastern Europe, 1943.

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  A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara’s corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.

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