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Son of sharecropper washing hands, 1938

The inner city of the destroyed Würzburg, Germany. Autumn 1945

‘Now you’re safe from terrorist attacks’ (Chappate, 2006)

HMS Barham, Malaya and Argus as seen from HMS Rodney

An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984.

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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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